Follow-up Comment #2, bug #64171 (project findutils): What do you see if you turn on debug output? For example,
find -D all / -maxdepth 2 How many direct children (including . and ..) does / have? What is its hard link count? e.g. on my system the answer is 32 for both: jupiter:/$ ( cd / && ls -a / | while read i ; do [ -d "$i" ] && printf x; done ) | wc -c 32 jupiter:/$ ls -a1F | grep -c '/$' 32 jupiter:/$ stat / File: / Size: 40 Blocks: 18 IO Block: 2560 directory Device: 18h/24d Inode: 34 Links: 32 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2023-05-09 21:11:05.083727547 +0100 Modify: 2023-05-01 08:34:01.653993646 +0100 Change: 2023-05-01 08:34:01.653993646 +0100 Birth: - _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64171> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/