[bug #27032] find fails to find a file that ls can list

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                 Summary: find fails to find a file that ls can list
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: pgscooter
            Submitted on: Wed 15 Jul 2009 07:54:16 AM GMT
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

the command "ls" can find a file that find cannot. I think that find should
either find files of this type by default, or at least have an option to do
so. From what I understand, find cannot find the file because it attempts to
cd into the directory before listing, instead of just listing the directory.
It is possible that you have permission to do one but not the other.

To reproduce the situation, please see the following commands and output:

address@hidden:/home/xinwei/bugreport# ls -l
total 4
d---r--r-- 2 root root 4096 2009-07-05 13:27 protected

address@hidden:/home/xinwei/bugreport# ls -l protected
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 xinwei xinwei 0 2009-07-05 13:27 canttouchthis
address@hidden:/home/xinwei/bugreport# exit
address@hidden:~/bugreport$ ls -l protected/

ls: cannot access protected/canttouchthis: Permission denied
total 0
-????????? ? ? ? ?                ? canttouchthis
address@hidden:~/bugreport$ find ./ -name canttouchthis
address@hidden:~/bugreport$ sudo !!

sudo find ./ -name canttouchthis
./protected/canttouchthis
address@hidden:~/bugreport$

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here is a copy of some further conversation on this exact topic:

Posted by James Youngman <address@hidden>
OpenSolaris find doesn't either:

flare:~/tmp$ find ft/tmp -ls
347455    4 drwxr-xr-x   3 james    1001         4096 Jul  8 09:54 ft/tmp
347457    4 drw-r--r--   2 james    1001         4096 Jul  8 09:54
ft/tmp/nonexecutable
find: cannot read dir ft/tmp/nonexecutable/: Permission denied
flare:~/tmp$ ls -l ft/tmp/nonexecutable
ft/tmp/nonexecutable/foo: Permission denied
total 0
$ find ft -print
ft
ft/tmp
ft/tmp/nonexecutable
find: cannot read dir ft/tmp/nonexecutable/: Permission denied
flare:~/tmp$ uname -a
SunOS flare.spiral-arm.org 5.11 snv_101b i86pc i386 i86xpv



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