Re: endless loop in /usr/bin/find ?

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Howorth
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

Re: endless loop in /usr/bin/find ?

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Howorth
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

endless loop in /usr/bin/find ?

2005-06-19 Thread Dave Howorth
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. I ran a Perl script, which in turn ran find. The Perl script belongs to a package calle