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[bug #23443] find regression: now fooled when crossing mountpoints


From: James Youngman
Subject: [bug #23443] find regression: now fooled when crossing mountpoints
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:39:23 +0000
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Follow-up Comment #11, bug #23443 (project findutils):

If we save additional information from stuct stat as potentially
disambiguating information, we run the risk of (more) false negatives.   For
example while we are searching /a/b/c/d something could concurrently modify
/a/b, changing its mtime, ctime, size, mode, number of links, uid, gid, and in
extreme cases also block count.   The only things I can see in struct stat
that would not change are the file-type fields in st_mode (that is, S_ISDIR
would still be true) and probably st_blksize (which is likely not
disambiguating anyway).  

We could also try to qualify possible false positives by checking st_dev and
st_ino on the directory _containing_ the potential ancestor in the loop. 
There are a number of possible problems with this (poor performance and
possible problems with FTS_LOGICAL).  I suppose this also slightly changes the
side effects of "mv /a/b/c/d /a", though I guess in the worst case the new
parent would make us traverse the cycle one more time before becoming sure
there is a cycle.   That would mean in our case that we would return FTS_D for
some things for which we should return FTS_DC.


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