OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[Les Mikesell]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 12:27 -1000, Dave Burns wrote:
> [...]
>> .gvfs is using some secret sauce that I don't understand to prevent
>> root from accessing it.  Is there some ACL stuff going on here?
>> (getfacl results are boring.) File locking? (lsof says it is not
>> open.) Corruption? How can it be that root is denied? I wonder what
>> would happen if I deleted .gvfs and recreated it manually with
>> identical permissions?
> 
> % mount|grep gvfs
> gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/poc/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=poc)
> 
> IOW .gvfs is a mount point for the FUSE user-space filesystem daemon, so
> I guess permissions are being handled by FUSE. This is something Gnome
> apparently uses for something or other (I've no idea as I use KDE).
> 
> You might try the -mount (or -xdev) options to 'find', but that will
> also restrict you from crossing into other mounted filesystems.
> 
> (Does anyone else think .gvfs is a PITA?)

I usually throw in the -mount option to find on general principles to 
keep it from walking into isos or nfs mounts that might be in arbitrary 
places and explicitly list the mount points I want if it has to span them.

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   Les Mikesell
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