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Re: find: .: Value too large for defined data type
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Tim Waugh |
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Re: find: .: Value too large for defined data type |
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Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:59:05 +0000 |
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:05:30AM +0000, James Youngman wrote:
> Thanks. Compare http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=8455
Hadn't spotted that; thanks.
> Hence it appears that the directory contains at least one file whose
> basename exceeds NAME_MAX characters.
Might it not be one of the other fields?
> NAME_MAX is 255 (in
> /usr/include/linux/limits.h) on the system I'm using at the moment.
> Could you ask the person submitting the bug report to verify this.
Done.
> > Should find(1) handle this better?
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> Probably, but how? By ignoring the entire affected directory?
Perhaps by making it a warning rather than a fatal error, as with
EACCES?
Tim.
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