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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-09-29 09:54:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-09-29 09:54:24 +0000 |
| commit | a4d470409f5590b95d33ab67e5866ab71e4f0e27 (patch) | |
| tree | 063eddc8b35a52abf51ae0d9e99483029015d5cd /NEWS | |
| parent | 344c4467768879d21f90b27bad10dc98c764d349 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-a4d470409f5590b95d33ab67e5866ab71e4f0e27.tar.xz | |
Work around a readdir bug in Darwin 7.9.0 (MacOS X 10.3.9) on HFS+
and NFS, whereby rm would not remove all files in a directory.
* src/remove.c (CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD): Reduce to 10.
(NEED_REWIND): New macro, so that we incur the cost of the work-around
rewinddir only on afflicted systems.
* NEWS: Clarify and correct.
* tests/rm/readdir-bug: New file. Test for the above fix.
* tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
Prompted by testing and analysis from Bruno Haible:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00326.html
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Improved robustness - rm works around a bug in Darwin 8.6.1 w/NFS that kept it from removing - a directory containing 188 or more entries. + rm works around a bug in Darwin 7.9.0 (MacOS X 10.3.9) that would + sometimes keep it from removing all entries in a directory on an HFS+ + or NFS-mounted partition. sort would fail to handle very large input (around 40GB) on systems with a mkstemp function that returns a file descriptor limited to 32-bit offsets. |