find bug?

Wed Oct 28 00:40:00 GMT 1998

What release and version of the cygwin.dll?
uname -rv will give it to you.
---"Brian R. Toonen" <toonen@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> I've discovered what I believe to be a bug in find. When searching
for file of a particular name, find does not recurse into directories
that have the same name as a directory earlier in the hierarchy. 
Enclosed below is an example of it not finding the file 'config' in
Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus. Since this works correctly on
all of the variants of UNIX, I believe the bug is specific to the
cygwin port of find or the cygwin library.
>> Note: in a real world scenario, this bug results in autoreconf not
updating the configure file in Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus.
>> --brian
>>> $ mkdir Communications
> $ mkdir Communications/nexus
> $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries
> $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus
> $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/mp
> $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/duct
> $ echo "config" > Communications/config
> $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/config
> $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/config
> $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config
> $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/mp/config
> $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/duct/config
> $ find Communications -name config -print
> Communications/config
> Communications/nexus/config
> Communications/nexus/libraries/config
> Communications/nexus/libraries/duct/config
> Communications/nexus/libraries/mp/config
> $ find Communications -type d -print
> Communications
> Communications/nexus
> Communications/nexus/libraries
> Communications/nexus/libraries/duct
> Communications/nexus/libraries/mp
> Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus
> $ ls Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config
> Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config
> $
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