[bug #54263] find -L treats ENOENT and ENOTDIR differently

[Tavian Barnes]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54263>

                 Summary: find -L treats ENOENT and ENOTDIR differently
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: tavianator
            Submitted on: Sat 07 Jul 2018 07:39:49 PM UTC
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.6.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

$ touch file
$ ln -s nowhere broken
$ ln -s file/nowhere notdir
$ find -L
.
./file
./broken
find: ‘./notdir’: Not a directory
./notdir

So we get an error message if a link is broken in one way but not another. 
Worse,

$ find -L broken
broken
$ find -L notdir
find: ‘notdir’: Not a directory

So at the top level, notdir is not even printed.  Same with -H.




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