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Subject: find problem -- bad status
Keywords: find
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Date: 27 Mar 90 21:13:39 GMT
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Hardware: Nixdorf Targon/35 (Pyramid), Software: TOS 3.3.04

I found an error performing the daily backup with AT&T find/cpio:
if you have directories /a /b /c ... /v
with one of these is (like /n) remote mounted (nfs),
but the remote hosts is down,
the comand "find / -print" will (sometimes) forget other directories to
find, even if they are real (not nfs) mounted filesystems !
find produces the error messages:
find: bad status -- /n
find: bad directory tree

It seems a very serios bug, because the result of find is unpredictable !!!

Is it an error in TOS or OS or a general error in find ?
Is it restricted to find or a general bug (/.attlib/libc.a) ?
what can i do to get correct backup all times ?
(find . does not work correct too);
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