Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!sundae!eggert From: eggert@sundae.sm.unisys.com (Paul Eggert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: ncheck -s Message-ID: <5552@sdcrdcf.sm.unisys.com> Date: 1 Dec 88 03:23:51 GMT References: <546@auspex.UUCP> Sender: news@sm.unisys.com Reply-To: eggert@sm.unisys.com (Paul Eggert) Organization: Unisys Santa Monica Lines: 9 Guy Harris writes that "ncheck", both on S5R3 and 4.3BSD, has an "-s" flag to look for both suid-files and special device files. He also writes "I suspect it may do so faster than, say, 'find'." On a Sun-3/160 fileserver under SunOS 4.0, I tried "ncheck -s". Sometimes it dumped core. Sometimes it silently missed files. I persevered until I found a filesystem where it operated correctly. It took 25% more wallclock time than "find", and 60% more user+system CPU time. Beware "ncheck -s".