Two problems with fixinc.sh on SunOS4 ...

Jeffrey A Law law@upchuck.cygnus.com
Fri Apr 30 23:15:00 GMT 1999


  In message < orwvztqwlr.fsf@dcc.unicamp.br >you write:
  > On Apr  3, 1999, "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
  > 
  > > 	The second problem is the hang.  The process fixinc.sh blocked on
  > > was "find . -name DONE -exec rm -f {} ;".  This process wasn't really hun
  > g,
  > > it was just taking a long time to run.  I checked with lsof, and the cwd 
  > was
  > > "/a/caip/a47/u47 (versicolor:/caip/u47)".  I.e. it was searching everyone
  > 's
  > > home directory (over NFS, urg.)
  > 
  > That's weird.  What if you add a call to `pwd' between `cd $LIB' and
  > the `find' command, in fixinc.sh?
Agreed.  That is quite odd -- how did a "find ." escape the current directory?

jeff



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