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RE: find bug?


$ uname -rv
4.0 19.1

--brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 3:04 PM
> To: Brian R. Toonen; gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: find bug?
> 
> 
> 
> What release and version of the cygwin.dll?
> 
> uname -rv will give it to you.
> 
> ---"Brian R. Toonen" <toonen@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > I've discovered what I believe to be a bug in find.  When searching
> for file of a particular name, find does not recurse into directories
> that have the same name as a directory earlier in the hierarchy. 
> Enclosed below is an example of it not finding the file 'config' in
> Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus.  Since this works correctly on
> all of the variants of UNIX, I believe the bug is specific to the
> cygwin port of find or the cygwin library.
> > 
> > Note: in a real world scenario, this bug results in autoreconf not
> updating the configure file in Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus.
> > 
> > --brian
> > 
> > 
> > $ mkdir Communications
> > $ mkdir Communications/nexus
> > $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries
> > $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus
> > $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/mp
> > $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/duct
> > $ echo "config" > Communications/config
> > $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/config
> > $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/config
> > $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config
> > $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/mp/config
> > $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/duct/config
> > $ find Communications -name config -print
> > Communications/config
> > Communications/nexus/config
> > Communications/nexus/libraries/config
> > Communications/nexus/libraries/duct/config
> > Communications/nexus/libraries/mp/config
> > $ find Communications -type d -print
> > Communications
> > Communications/nexus
> > Communications/nexus/libraries
> > Communications/nexus/libraries/duct
> > Communications/nexus/libraries/mp
> > Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus
> > $ ls Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config
> > Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config
> > $
> > 
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