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Re: find utility gives segmentation fault



That's right, the GNU version of find will default to the current directory if
none is specified.  Have you tried a different kernel?

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 02:40:26PM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:22:37AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
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> > On Friday 28 June 2002 00:06, Larry Smith wrote:
> > > I've been having trouble with the find utility in
> > > Potato.
> > >
> > > Often, if I run find as root (so I can have permission
> > > to look in all directories), it will run awhile, then
> > > die with a segmentation fault.
> > >
> > > When this happens, I'm unable to do a normal shutdown,
> > > the system hangs during shutdown.
> > >
> > > I use the command:
> > >
> > > find -name filename
> > 
> > You need to specify a directory to start the search in.
> > 
> > Try:
> > 
> > 	find / -name filename
> 
> Uh, no.  If you don't give a directory, then find defaults to using the
> current directory(as per the manpage).  I don't think that's the problem
> in this case.
> 
> - Chris
> 
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