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

[Dave Howorth]

James Youngman wrote:
> 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.

Oops, sorry I didn't spot it when I googled the list archives. Thanks 
very much for your response. So the fix is clear - upgrade! I'm curious 
about one detail because I'd like to stay in step with Suse if poss.

  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 detail is that I'm running 4.1.20, according to Suses's yast. But 
you say the bug was introduced later. I had found the second of these 
links, but it didn't seem to match my symptoms because (a) the release 
number doesn't match and (b) there's apparently no -follow on the 
command that was executing on my machine. The other odd thing is that 
this search runs every night and hasn't failed again, whereas the 
symptoms in that bug report look like a 'hard', repeatable failure.

Thanks again for your reply,
Dave
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