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| Subject: | Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? |
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| Date: | Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:33:14 +0300 |
Hi, On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:05:04AM -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote: [...]
If we have fchdir, I see find as maintaining a stack of file descriptors to directories that have been chdir'ed into.
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In general, use fchdir and fstat whenever possible.
find utility implementation should not base entirely on stack of file descriptors, due to open file descriptors limits. Same issues arise with fts(3)/ftw(3) implementations and its clones. -- ldv
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