[bug #17877] Invalid "No such file or directory" error on filesystem without stable inode numbers

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                 Summary: Invalid "No such file or directory" error on
filesystem without stable inode numbers
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Thursday 09/28/2006 at 11:24 UTC
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Miklos Szeredi
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 4.3.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

fts_safe_changedir() in gnulib/lib/fts.c return ENOENT error if inode number
of a directory changed.

There are several Linux filesystems (including smbfs, fat, and some FUSE
based ones) which cannot provide stable inode numbers for unreferenced files
or directories.

In their cases find may in rare circumstances (if the cached in-core inode is
evicted from the cache) erronously fail to recurse into these directories.

This bug seems to have appeared in 4.3.0.




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