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

[James Youngman]

On 10/4/06, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:

> The resulting down side is that the old version of find is
> susceptible to a nasty type of attack when traversing a directory
> that is writable by another user.

I think even oldfind (i.e. version 4.2.x and the alternate binary in
4.3.x) has sufficient defences against that.   The advantage that the
fts-based find has over the older code is that it can traverse
extremely deep directory hierarchies because it isn't recursive.   The
fts-based find code is also simpler.

James.