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To: Daniel Leeds <cosmos@sponsor.octet.com>
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Subject: Re: find problems 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 10:11:30 -0800
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>when i do this...basically to get a complete listt of all files and dirs 
>on a machine, this happens
>
>$ find / > file.output &
>
>it bombs midway through with fts_read no such file or directory?

   Probably because it's going through the files in /proc and this is
obviously very volatile.

-DG