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Re: find utility gives segmentation fault



On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:06:53PM -0700, 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
> 
> Is there a known bug with find?

If the system hangs, that's a kernel bug, not a find bug. Does this
occur on a special filesystem, like NFS or /proc?

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