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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge jeremy@sue...
Subject: where is 'find'?
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 10:19:01 -0400

On Sep 30, 12:30am, Scott Schwartz wrote:
> I hope it doesn't use chdir(), since ".." is unpredictable in Plan 9.
> du avoids that, but has a limit of 256 chars on total path length.

It doesn't use '..', so it is limited to 255 character pathnames.
I would have used fchdir, but it wasn't there.  

        J