Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:40:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@columbus.rr.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/4420: find -exedir doesn't chdir for first entry Message-ID: <199908120340.UAA31924@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/4420; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@columbus.rr.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, imp@village.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/4420: find -exedir doesn't chdir for first entry
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:36:37 -0400
Warner,
Find uses the fts functions, and the -execdir command is relying on the
normal chdir
functionality to leave the calling function in the right directory just
before the exec.
(Of course, there are a few scenarios in which fts doesn't use chdir,
but we will ignore
that since it would break -execdir completely, if they occured.) -exec,
in fact, has to
force the directory back to the original directory in the child. It
turns out that if
you match on directories, the origin directory of the search doesn't
cause a chdir. So,
find is not where it expects to be. So the following patch adds code to
go do the explicit
chdir in those cases.
The question that remains is where should this be and what should the
current directory be
when you -execdir in that starting directory. Well, a simple test shows
a little more:
$ find /tmp -type d -execdir echo {} \;
tmp
.X11-unix
$
This would seem to indicate that the resulting "hit" during execdir is
defined as pwd + {}.
So, I have coded this patch to remove the last directory from the path.
Thus, with my patch:
$ find /tmp -type d -execdir pwd \; -execdir echo {} \;
/
tmp
/tmp
.X11-unix
$
Oddly enough, a find of / yeilds a pwd of / and an empty {}. One can
only wonder.
--- /usr/src/usr.bin/find/function.c.orig Tue Dec 15 23:50:46 1998
+++ function.c Wed Aug 11 23:22:18 1999
@@ -419,6 +419,20 @@
err(1, "fork");
/* NOTREACHED */
case 0:
+ if (entry->fts_accpath == entry->fts_path &&
+ file != entry->fts_path) {
+ char *dir = strdup(entry->fts_path);
+ file = strrchr(dir, '/');
+ *file = 0;
+ if (*dir == 0) {
+ dir[0] = '/';
+ dir[1] = 0;
+ }
+ if (chdir(dir)) {
+ warn("chdir");
+ _exit(1);
+ }
+ }
execvp(plan->e_argv[0], plan->e_argv);
warn("%s", plan->e_argv[0]);
_exit(1);
-- Danny J. Zerkel
dzerkel@columbus.rr.com
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