Comment 16 for bug 373214

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

In case anyone is curious, the original bug was introduced in http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=756b47b1609ecb0890f04302afba4c74779e263f due to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15531; I believe it was exposed recently due to http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=cecfe3ef8e4db51d97f0cbed864f47893adc354e, which fixed a similar uninitialised stat data bug, but unfortunately the previous buggy code had the effect of catching the exact same property of the uninitialised stat data in question that ended up causing problems here ...