find fails
Ian Kluft
kluft at hpcupt1.HP.COM
Tue Aug 2 06:15:20 AEST 1988
rich at jolnet.UUCP (Rich Andrews) writes:
> When I am in /usr/lib and execute a find command such as
> "find . -print" it gets to /usr/lib/uucp and then it fails
> with a stat() failed /usr/lib/uucp/cd_text.
>
> This is not the only file that this happens to. It also
> happens to some of my /usr/lib/*.a files and to some
> of my F77 libs and pascal files.
>
> Fsck reports all is ok and the files are readable.
>
> Any ideas?
Find's access is limited to what you as a user can normally see.
Under root, you shouldn't have such problems.
The big question is: were you root when this problem occurred?
If you were, see stat(2) for any quirks your system may have which
might return an error to 'find'.
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