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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1997-11-08 20:38:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1997-11-08 20:38:23 +0000 |
| commit | 9ef77c1298b73667293c91bfc7c39304eff6bfdc (patch) | |
| tree | 25dd5e66348dc1317a45f11a63affe368a6e4bab /m4 | |
| parent | 7417f884aff9d2da36c05eee562e1185ee6bb8f4 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-9ef77c1298b73667293c91bfc7c39304eff6bfdc.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/m4/readdir.m4 b/m4/readdir.m4 index c73c15675..d2b1a557e 100644 --- a/m4/readdir.m4 +++ b/m4/readdir.m4 @@ -1,6 +1,16 @@ #serial 1 -dnl FIXME: describe +dnl SunOS's readdir is broken in such a way that rm.c has to add extra code +dnl to test whether a NULL return value really means there are no more files +dnl in the directory. +dnl +dnl Detect the problem by creating a directory containing 300 files (254 not +dnl counting . and .. is the minimum) and see if a loop doing `readdir; unlink' +dnl removes all of them. +dnl +dnl Define HAVE_WORKING_READDIR if readdir does *not* have this problem. + +dnl Written by Jim Meyering. AC_DEFUN(jm_FUNC_READDIR, [dnl |