find(1): Is this a bug or not?

Matthew Jacob mj at feral.com
Mon Nov 29 20:54:40 UTC 2010


can you report out the actual command line you're using and what release 
it's from?

On 11/29/2010 12:08 PM, Denise H. G. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found that, while searching for empty directories, find(1) will not
> continue if it encounters a dir it can't enter (e.g. no privilege). I
> don't know if it's so designed... I've checked NetBSD and OpenBSD's
> implementations (almost identical to that of FreeBSD's). And they behave
> the same way as FreeBSD's find(1) does under the circumstance.
>
> I'm wondering if this is a bug or not.
>


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