Re: endless loop in /usr/bin/find ?

[James Youngman]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:08:53PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:

> I have a weird problem and am wondering if anybody has seen it
> before - find seems to be in an infinite loop. I'm running on
> Suse9.2. kernel 2.6.8-24.14-smp. findutils 4.1.20-2 x86_64. Dual
> processor Xeon.

Yes, this is a bug.  The bug was introduced in findutils version
4.2.19 and was fixed in version 4.2.22.  The current stable release of
findutils (4.2.23, see ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils) therefore
contains this fix.  See also 

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-findutils/2005-06/msg00115.html
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=13381

The findutils test suite should contain a test case for this problem -
and many other tests - but is still rather incomplete and lacks this
check among others.  

Apologies.

James Younmgan.