From owner-freebsd-current  Fri Sep 26 02:07:38 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA23076
          for current-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 02:07:38 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA23068
          for <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 02:07:34 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from grog@localhost)
	by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id SAA08591;
	Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:34:50 +0930 (CST)
Message-ID: <19970926183449.36254@lemis.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:34:49 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>,
        FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: find still broken - is this only happening to me?
References: <19970926171729.56024@lemis.com> <8145.875264305@critter.freebsd.dk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e
In-Reply-To: <8145.875264305@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 10:58:25AM +0200
Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia
Phone: +61-8-8388-8250
Fax: +61-8-8388-8250
Mobile: +61-41-739-7062
WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog
Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 10:58:25AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <19970926171729.56024@lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
>
>>>> $ find /sys -follow -name '*.[csh]' | xargs grep ENFILE|less
>>
>> Grrr.  I went back and recompiled find with -g.  And it worked.  So I
>> recompiled it with the default CFLAGS.  And it worked.  I promise,
>> nothing in the source tree has changed since I built it yesterday,
>> only the problem has gone into hiding.
>>
>> Let's forget this one.  If it happens again, I'll try to catch it
>> before it goes into hiding again.
>
> Is there any chance that you had a directory named so it matched '*.[csh]' ?
>
> Ie, would a
>
> 	find /sys -type f -name '*.[csh]' | xargs grep ENFILE|less
>
> have made a difference ?

No, I've seen this in a number of places.  And I repeated exactly the
same command with the newly compiled version.  I'm sure there *is* a
bug there somewhere--recall that GNU find doesn't have the same
problem--but it's obviously pretty elusive.

Greg