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From: kluft@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ian Kluft)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: find fails
Message-ID: <5890001@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 88 20:15:20 GMT
References: <673@jolnet.UUCP>
Organization: HP Systems Technology Div, Cupertino CA
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rich@jolnet.UUCP (Rich Andrews) writes:
> When I am in /usr/lib and execute a find command such as
> "find . -print" it gets to /usr/lib/uucp and then it fails
> with a stat() failed  /usr/lib/uucp/cd_text.
> 
> This is not the only file that this happens to.  It also 
> happens to some of my /usr/lib/*.a files and to some
> of my F77 libs and pascal files.  
> 
> 	Fsck reports all is ok and the files are readable.
> 
> Any ideas?

Find's access is limited to what you as a user can normally see.
Under root, you shouldn't have such problems.
The big question is: were you root when this problem occurred?

If you were, see stat(2) for any quirks your system may have which
might return an error to 'find'.

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