Issues with find in /proc

[Eric Blake]

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According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/1/2009 9:13 AM:
> This one appears to be a bug in find.  It looks like it's using its own
> version of the fts(3) functions.  AFAICS, what happens is that find uses
> fstatat(fd = "/proc/$PID/fd", name="6") in the first place.  This
> returns with ENOENT since the descriptor 6 disappeared in the meantime.
> That should be fine for find, but for some reason the next what happens
> is that it calls lstat("6").  The problem here is that the current
> working directory is /proc, which does not contain a file called "6" and
> that in turn results in the assertion.
> 
> Eric, could you have a look into that, please?

I need to spend more time on findutils in general, since there is a newer
version that solves several segfaults.  But yes, I've added this to my
list of things to remember to double-check.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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