SUMMARY: 64 bits version of the find command

I finally solve my problem :

The problem is the /proc pseudo file system which may contain some 64 bits
process information.  These files can't be accessed by the default find
command available in Solaris 7.  This explain the following error message.
find: cannot open /: Value too large for defined data type

find misses a exclude options, so it is not possible to prevent it from
scanning the /proc file system.  The only things that may be done are to
grep the output or use the fstype ufs options, but these options will not
prevent find to scan /proc but only not return any of its content.   find
was then still scanning /proc and getting an error.

I then manage to get the source of GNU find @
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/findutils.html

and then compile find for sparc 64 bits with gcc 3.3    

The new find 64 bits command is now able to scan everything.

Some errors may output in /proc, but these error are only related to unlink
files.  So I am using 2>/dev/null after the find command to prevent this.



-----Original Message-----
From: Bousquet Francois [mailto:Francois.Bousquet@cgi.com]
Sent: January 21, 2005 11:11 AM
To: Mailing List - SunManagers (E-mail)
Subject: 64 bits version of the find command


I am trying to run a script that is doing a find for suid and guid files on
a system.

Basically I am using this command :

find / -perm 4000 -print


On one of my server (E450 with Solaris 7) this command returns an error :
# find / -perm 4000 -print
find: cannot open /: Value too large for defined data type
#

I have investigate the problem a bit more and found that it is /proc the
problem
# find /proc -perm 4000 -print
find: cannot open /proc: Value too large for defined data type
#

I also found this bug ID 4638523
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-1-4638523-1&searchclau
se=%22Value%20too%20large%20for%20defined%20data%20type%22%20%20%20find

The conclusion is proposing a script : find / ! \( -name proc -prune \) to
solve the problem.  But it is buggy, as it will exclude proc files or
directory on a deep directory tree (ex : /opt/application/proc).

So I am trying to find a 64 bits version of find for Solaris 7.
These are the only 64 bits command I can find :

# ls -l /usr/bin/sparcv9
total 1380
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin       192488 Jun 29  1999 adb
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        19640 Sep  1  1998 gcore
-r-xr-sr-x   1 bin      sys        15480 Sep  1  1998 ipcs
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        27296 Sep  1  1998 kgmon
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        23184 Sep  1  1998 ls
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        14584 Sep  1  1998 plimit
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        81536 Sep  1  1998 prex
-r-sr-xr-x   1 root     sys        36456 Sep  1  1998 ps
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        17168 May 20  1999 pvs
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        16360 Jun 29  1999 savecore
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        11744 Sep  1  1998 setuname
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        11840 Sep  1  1998 tnfxtract
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin       178408 Jun 29  1999 truss
-r-sr-xr-x   2 root     bin        15584 Sep  1  1998 uptime
-r-sr-xr-x   2 root     bin        15584 Sep  1  1998 w
#


Anyone know where I can find a 64 bits version of find ?

Frangois Bousquet
Counselor - Unix System Administrator
INET - Internet Maintenance
CGI - LBC Services
Email : Francois.Bousquet@CGI.com
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