Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

[mwoehlke]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> mwoehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> > # using THRESHOLD = 150
> > $ tar xzf coreutils-6.3.tar.gz
> > $ until /path-to-rm -rf coreutils-6.3 ; do : ; done
> > # using THRESHOLD = 200 (default)
> > $ tar xzf coreutils-6.3.tar.gz
> > $ until /path-to-rm -rf coreutils-6.3 ; do : ; done
> > /path-to-rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-6.3/m4':
> > Directory not empty
> > /path-to-rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-6.3/lib':
> > Directory not empty
> >
> > ...so that is definitely the problem. Trying a few more values, I see:
> > 150 - works
> > 200 - broken
> > 175 - works
> > 190 - broken (but only in m4, not lib)
> > 185 - works
> > 188 - broken (same as 190)
> > 187 - works
> >
> > Honestly, I would probably go with 160-ish to be safe. :-)
>
> Thanks.
> I'll use 180.
> The lower we go, the more of a performance penalty
> we impose for directories with very many entries.
>
> Already, in implementing remove.c that way, I've compromised
> (however slightly) how GNU rm works in general, for the sake of
> working reliably even on such broken file systems.

Have you considered making this conditional to broken Darwin versions? :-)

Anyway, just caught the check-in too, thanks.

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Matthew
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