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Re: coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe --
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe -- |
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Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:30:31 +0100 |
Paul Townsend <address@hidden> wrote:
> 1) On line 15, "'expensive'" should be "'very expensive'"?
When I wrote the comment, it wasn't intended to refer to a script name.
I've changed it.
> 2) Script writes "big" relative to current directory. Unfortunately,
> not all filesystems have that much free space so I added a TMPDIR
> variable that can point at a filesystem that has sufficient space. I
> don't know how it should be set though (../very-expensive maybe??).
That was deliberate.
I didn't think it was worth the complication to try any partition
other than the current one, especially for a test that few will
want or be able to run. Even I don't run this test all the time.
I figured that those who really want to run it, can build and run
`make check' on a partition where there's enough space. But that's
not a good attitude :-)
So, if you're interested in pursuing it, it would be better to provide a
more user-friendly method. You might want to use an approach like that
used in misc/tac-continue. It does something similar, since it needs
a partition that is full (data-wise), but that still has free inodes.
If you have such a partition, you can tell that test about it by setting
the FULL_PARTITION_TMPDIR envvar, e.g.,
FULL_PARTITION_TMPDIR=/full make check
Don't use $TMPDIR, because it's not uncommon to have it
pointing to a memory-backed file system -- not the place you'd
want to create a 2GB temporary file, even if it'd fit.
> 3) Wouldn't `cmp -s' be better? Without the "-s", you see the `cmp'
> message about differences at "char 1, line 1".
No, since some versions of cmp don't support the -s option.
Actually, diff would be better, but cmp is more portable.
> Below I have delineated the mods I made.
Thanks.
- coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe --, Paul Townsend, 2005/11/03
- Re: coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe --, Jim Meyering, 2005/11/03
- Re: coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe --, Paul Townsend, 2005/11/03
- Re: coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe --, Jim Meyering, 2005/11/04
- Re: coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe --, Paul Townsend, 2005/11/08
- Re: coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe --,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe --, Paul Townsend, 2005/11/09
- Re: coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe --, Jim Meyering, 2005/11/09
- Re: coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe --, Jim Meyering, 2005/11/09
- Re: coreutils-5.92:du not AIX largefile safe --, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/11/09