Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Feb 1998 06:25:35 +0100 (MET) | From | "Michael L. Galbraith" <> | Subject | Re: find: /proc/<pid>/fd/4: No such file or directory |
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, David Schwartz wrote:
> > > >On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, David Schwartz wrote: > > > >> > >> So? Files in the /proc directory can be transient and appear and > >> disappear at whim. > >> > >> DS > >> > > > >Why don't the other fs's have a problem with shadows? You can make > >ext2 files as transient as they come, and there are no shadows. > > > > -Mike > > > I haven't looked closely, but my guess is that this file is for the find > processes descriptor used to read the directory, and find's code to traverse > a directory is sufficiently fast that a process switch rarely if ever occurs > in between when a directory is read and the files inside it are checked. > Therefore, only the proc entry for the find process itself is vulnerable. > > In any event, this behavior is certainly not unreasonable. > > DS
I looked as closely as I can for a few days, and it is as you say. Not a big problem, merely annoying :)
-Mike
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