OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[Rick Stevens]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>>
>>> If -name is the first predicate, and you prune matches, find will not 
>>> need to stat() the directory entry:
>>
>> Sorry, won't work for GVFS filesystem mountpoints.  As soon as the 
>> non-owner touches the inode, the error occurs.
> ...
>> Note that test was on F9, x86_64.
> 
> Yep, that appears to be true for F9.  It looks like the version of 
> findutils included in F10 has been fixed in this respect, though. 
> There's no need to touch the inode for directories which are being 
> pruned based on their name.  :)

Nice to hear...or is it a change in GVFS?

> The platform difference explains the discrepancy between your tests and 
> mine.

Yeah, guess so.
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