The attached email indicates that findutils' current treatment of the
-I and -L options is, I think, correct. I will update the
documentation to explain the behaviour soon.
James.
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James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, on 19 Jun 2005:
>
> The functionality of the -L and
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:59:16AM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
> The info for 1 & 2 were in my original email, repeated below.
Sorry, silly me.
> Sadly, I didn't kill it with a QUIT and there's no core file on the
> system. If it happens again I'll drop core and report where I found
> it.
Than
James Youngman wrote:
> That's what the bug report I'm working from said. I have not
> personally tested 4.1.20 to see if it is affected by this problem.
I just ran that test to make sure. There was no problem with 4.1.20, so
it's very likely something different.
JY:
I think then that you're
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:26:26AM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> 3. the resulting core file (assuming you are running
> with "ulimit -c unlimited").
Since find changes working directory as it goes, this core file will
be dropped in the directory that find was searching when the pr
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:53:32AM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
> The detail is that I'm running 4.1.20, according to Suses's yast. But
> you say the bug was introduced later.
That's what the bug report I'm working from said. I have not
personally tested 4.1.20 to see if it is affected by this p
James Youngman wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:08:53PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
I have a weird problem and am wondering if anybody has seen it
before - find seems to be in an infinite loop. I'm running on
Suse9.2. kernel 2.6.8-24.14-smp. findutils 4.1.20-2 x86_64. Dual
processor Xeon.
Yes
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 04:21:50AM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> I've been pleasantly surprised at how well xargs --max-procs N works.
> I've been using it with wget, and it lets me trivially parallelize
> some kinds of web spidering. As more people get multiprocessor
> systems and multiprocessor c
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:08:53PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
> I have a weird problem and am wondering if anybody has seen it
> before - find seems to be in an infinite loop. I'm running on
> Suse9.2. kernel 2.6.8-24.14-smp. findutils 4.1.20-2 x86_64. Dual
> processor Xeon.
Yes, this is a bug.
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #13381 (project findutils):
Followup - this isn't a denial of updatedb service because updatedb does not
use -follow or -L. However, the problem is significant from a security
perspective in other contexts.
Once again, -L should not be used in security-sensitive envir
