We have noted cases where running "find" on solaris on a directory, where another process is concurrently writing files, can cause find to crash. It seems that if a file is deleted after find has discovered it but not gathered all needed information (?), it exits with the following message:

/usr/ccs/bin/find: stat() error $MODIFIED_FILE: No such file or directory

(Apparently, we're not the only ones affected by this: https://community.oracle.com/thread/1909140?start=0&tstart=0)

I'm thinking three ways to address this, in order of preference:
 
1) Check if there are Solaris patches that fixes find

2) Check if we can include GNU find in the solaris devkits

3) Write a wrapper around find that catches failures and retries a reasonable number of times, hoping that any failure is unlikely and intermittent.