[Fedora] FC4 'find' command is finding wrong hard link count

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Tom Broadhurst wrote:

> Has anyone determined what this problem is yet?
> I don't want my system to blow up because of a /proc filesystem problem.
>  
> [root at ...~]# find / -name dodo -print
> find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug 
> in your filesystem driver.Automatically turning on find's -noleaf 
> option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that 
> should have been searched.
> /home/me/dodo
> [root at ...~]#

    This isn't a problem with find, nor a problem with /proc.  You 
shouldn't run find against the /proc file system.  It changes with every 
process that's running and with every single command you type in.  Hence 
find complaining that something's wrong.  You'll notice that those files 
in /proc have a 0-byte file size, yet when you cat them, they contain 
data.  That's the kernel at work for you.  Don't run find against /proc.

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