This patch is already applied on gnulib upstream git. Index: findutils-4.4.2/gnulib/lib/fts.c =================================================================== --- findutils-4.4.2.orig/gnulib/lib/fts.c +++ findutils-4.4.2/gnulib/lib/fts.c @@ -974,6 +974,20 @@ fts_build (register FTS *sp, int type) opening it. */ if (cur->fts_info == FTS_NSOK) cur->fts_info = fts_stat(sp, cur, false); + else if (sp->fts_options & FTS_TIGHT_CYCLE_CHECK) { + /* Now read the stat info again after opening a directory to + * reveal eventual changes caused by a submount triggered by + * the traverse. But do it only for utilities which use + * FTS_TIGHT_CYCLE_CHECK. Therefore only find and du can + * benefit from this feature for now. + */ + LEAVE_DIR (sp, cur, "4"); + fts_stat (sp, cur, false); + if (! enter_dir (sp, cur)) { + __set_errno (ENOMEM); + return NULL; + } + } /* * Nlinks is the number of possible entries of type directory in the