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

[James Youngman]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:59:16AM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:

> The info for 1 & 2 were in my original email, repeated below. 

Sorry, silly me.

> Sadly, I didn't kill it with a QUIT and there's no core file on the
> system. If it happens again I'll drop core and report where I found
> it. 

Thanks.  As the program appears not to be interacting with the OS,
"ltrace" may prove to be more useful than strace, since it also
includes calls to shared library functions.

> Would you like me to file an incomplete bug report now, or should I
> wait until (if) I see it again and have a core file?

The problem with an incomplete bug report is that I simply have no way
of making headway on the problem.  Has anybody else on the list ever
seen a similar problem?

Regards,
James.