Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] Compare?
Date: Saturday, 12 Sep 2020, 09:26:48
> Message Posted By: Unknown > > When I do /c/cs323/Hwk1/Compare /root -depth, my answer and find are > different. find gives /root and then errors. But when my solution is the > same as /c/cs323/Hwk1/fiend /root -depth - which one should I trust? My > fiend and the solution fiend give an error on opening(/root) as the first > thing printed. You have uncovered a bug in Hwk1/fiend. The correct output is an error message (since opendir() fails on /root) and a line containing /root. That is, /bin/find is correct. I have released a new version of Hwk1/fiend (the old version is now Hwk1/fiend.V0) that fixes this bug and the earlier one involving a file named -. Thanks for pointing this out. --Stan-PREV INDEX NEXT