OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[Rick Stevens]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>> You need to tell find what to do with files not named .gvfs:
>>>
>>> find /users/tburns -name .gvfs -prune -o -print
>>
>> Will not work.  As soon as the non-owner of .gvfs does a stat on the
>> directory, the error will be spit out.  find must "stat()" any item
>> it finds to handle the remainder of the predicate and POP goes the
>> error.
> 
> If -name is the first predicate, and you prune matches, find will not 
> need to stat() the directory entry:
> 
> [gordon at herald:~/tmp/findtest]$ find . -print
> .
> ./noread
> find: `./noread': Permission denied
> ./read
> ./read/file
> 
> [gordon at herald:~/tmp/findtest]$ find . -name noread -prune -o -print
> .
> ./read
> ./read/file

Sorry, won't work for GVFS filesystem mountpoints.  As soon as the 
non-owner touches the inode, the error occurs.  Just a couple of tests
(I'm redirecting stdout just to get rid of the stuff extraneous to the
discussion):

As owner:
	[rick at bigdog ~]$ ls -lad .gv*
	dr-x------ 2 rick rick 0 2008-11-04 18:00 .gvfs
	[rick at bigdog ~]$ find . -name ".gvfs" -prune -o -print \
	>/dev/null
	[rick at bigdog ~]$

As root:
	[root at bigdog rick]# find . -name ".gvfs" -prune -o -print \
	>/dev/null
	find: ./.gvfs: Permission denied
	[root at bigdog rick]#

Note that test was on F9, x86_64.
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