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[Jos van Kan <vankan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Peters wrote:
> Ok, from the REALLY BASIC QUESTION department, why does find fail with
> "find . changed during execution of find" when I search from the root?
> This is a Suse 9.2 installation on a PIII with 640mb of RAM. Really. It
> boots from a small IDE drive where most of Linux is but there's also two
> different raid arrays attached, one SATA on a 3Ware card, one SCSI.
> 
> Example:
> 
> # find / -name smb.conf
> [finds some files and reports them
> find: . changed during execution of find
> 
> #
> 
> Often I get no results from the find before it returns that error,
> although this example does return 4 results. What should I be doing
> instead?

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Jan/0466.html

for a complete analysis of this phenomenon by Randall. Guess what. Found this
link by googling "changed during execution of find".

Regards,
-- 
Jos van Kan                registered Linux user #152704
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