Re: find and tmpfs

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:08:05AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:01:05PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > Oddity with find? /usr/obj is tmpfs:
> > 
> > quantz# find . -name tulip.c
> > quantz# cd firmware/etherboot/ipxe/src/drivers/
> > quantz# cd net
> > quantz# ls tul*
> > tulip.c   tulip.txt
> > quantz# pwd
> > /usr/obj/pkgsrc/sysutils/xentools42/work.x86_64/ipxe/src/drivers/net
> > quantz# ls -l tulip.c
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  76218 Feb  2  2010 tulip.c
> > 
> > find should have found tulip.c...
> 
> Is there a symlink in the path?

Yes - got it:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    74 May 27 23:21 ipxe -> 
/usr/obj/pkgsrc/sysutils/xentools42/work.x86_64/xen-4.2.2/tools/../../ipxe


Thanks,

Patrick