Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?

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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.
[...]
> 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.


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