bugtraq - Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:23:20 +0000
From: James Youngman <bugtraq@...ession.spiral-arm.org>
To: Paul Szabo <psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au>
Cc: srevilak@...akeasy.net, parimiv@...haw.com, martin.buchholz@....com,
	levon@...ementarian.org, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, bug-findutils@....org
Subject: Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?


On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:59:38AM +1100, Paul Szabo wrote:

> I think find should never cause an automount to "trigger" and cause it to
> be mounted. It is OK to traverse if it was mounted to start with; is surely
> not OK to traverse if it wasn't already mounted. Maybe your problem is
> sidestepped by this principle?

Possibly, but I think that would be expensive to implement (i.e. slow
when running) and perhaps not POSIX compliant.

James.