[bugs #12044] find still hangs on dead NFS filesystems on Solaris

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #9, bugs #12044 (project findutils):

>Regarding the OS version check, I think it very unlikely that 
>if the Matrix fork of Linux was released, it would be based 
>on a version of Linux that is now over 7 yeard old. They'd 
>fork a more recent version. Hence the example you give is 
>spurious. Findutils would not "stop working". If you take a 
>look at the check_nofollow() code I'm sure you'll >understand.

My point was that if someone forked the very latest
version of Linux, findutils would work "less well", since
check_nofollow() would fail.  I don't have a fix,
merely pointing out that the current algorithm is
linux-fork-hostile.

Martin


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