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Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?
From: Casper.Dik () Sun COM
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:51:38 +0100
I can see that that would be useful but it would fail to comply with the POSIX standard, which specifies: The find utility shall be able to descend to arbitrary depths in a file hierarchy and shall not fail due to path length limitations (unless a path operand specified by the application exceeds {PATH_MAX} requirements)
But PATH_MAX is limited and the number of file descriptors is perhaps not. (On Solaris, PATH_MAX is 1024 so you require at most 512 file descriptors to keep the stack of directories: 512 is less than the default hard limit of 65536 file descriptors per process [S9, S8 and before used 1024, still >> 512) Casper
Current thread:
- Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? James Youngman (Nov 22)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Martin Buchholz (Nov 22)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Dmitry V. Levin (Nov 22)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? James Youngman (Nov 23)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Martin Buchholz (Nov 23)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? James Youngman (Nov 23)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Martin Buchholz (Nov 23)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? devnull (Nov 24)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Casper . Dik (Nov 24)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Martin Buchholz (Nov 24)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Casper . Dik (Nov 24)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Martin Buchholz (Nov 22)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? James Youngman (Nov 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Paul Szabo (Nov 23)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? James Youngman (Nov 23)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Paul Szabo (Nov 23)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Martin Buchholz (Nov 23)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Paul Szabo (Nov 23)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? James Youngman (Nov 23)