I've got a smbfs permanently mounted on /mnt/iasoon_mp3 (iasoon being my
second computer).  If iasoon is turned off, stat()'ing /mnt/iasoon_mp3
gives an Input/output error (yeah, I really should be using a
automounter).

The problem is, that nightly cronjobs run command like
  find / -xdev \! -path /mnt/iasoon_\*
which result in a "input/output error " notice sent to root every night.
The problem seems to be that, even though the file is explicitly
off-limits for find, the /mnt/iasoon_mp3 dir is stat()'ed anyway.  I
think that's a bug.

For example, stracing the command " find /mnt -xdev -maxdepth 2 \! -path
/mnt/iasoon_\*" gives (relevant part shown only):

lstat64("iasoon_mp3", 0xbffff6b8)       = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
write(2, "find: ", 6)                   = 6
write(2, "/mnt/iasoon_mp3", 15)         = 15

Unfortunately, recent versions of findutils 4.2.x will stat the
top-level directory of all mounted filesystems as part of an enhanced
security check.  Hence the directory you are having a problem with
will always be stat()ed anyway.

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