Re: qurious find error

[Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:50:23PM +0300, Vladimir Zolotykh wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, why
> 
>   sudo find /proc -group backup -print
> 
> always terminates with
> 
>   find: /proc/N/fd/4: No such file or directory
> 
> where N is always a new number ?
> 
> [Sarge, GNU/Linux]

I assume you know that /proc is a synthetic filesystem containing
system information, and /proc/N/fd is a directory containing an
entry for each open file descriptor for process 'N'...

At a guess, I would say that 'N' is the process id of the 'find' process
itself (and hence will be different each time it is run), and file
descriptor 4 was probably open to read the content of the '/proc/N/fd' 
directory, but closed (and hence the file disappeard) when it attempted
to stat it to see if the group matched..

Regards,
DigbyT
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