Re: mv fails with "Too many open files" when moving _many_ files

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here's how I reproduced it, both with coreutils 5.2.1 and with CVS
> coreutils.  On my host, /tmp and /home are different file systems;
> this is a crucial part of the bug.
>
>    ulimit -n 1024
>    cd /home/eggert/junk
>    mkdir foo /tmp/foo
>    cd foo
>    for f in $(seq 1 1500); do mkdir $f; touch $f/f; done
>    mv * /tmp/foo

Thanks a lot for that small test case.
Often, reproducing the problem is harder than
coming up with a fix.