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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-09-26 20:42:43 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-09-26 20:42:43 +0000
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downloadcoreutils-a86a56f7d101fbdeed6a64eb6b351ba67bfa5d05.tar.xz
* NEWS: rm works around a bug in Darwin 8.6.1 w/NFS that kept
it from removing a directory containing 188 or more entries. * src/remove.c (CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD): Decrease by 20, go work around the buggy readdir on Darwin 8.6.1 with NFS. Reported by Matthew Woehlke.
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** 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.
+
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.