coreutils/tests/rm/readdir-bug.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Exercise the Darwin/MacOS bug worked around on 2006-09-29,
# whereby rm would fail to remove all entries in a directory.

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. "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
print_ver_ rm

# Create a directory containing many files.
# What counts is a combination of the number of files and
# the lengths of their names.  For details, see
# https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00326.html
mkdir b || framework_failure_
cd b || framework_failure_
for i in $(seq 1 250); do
  touch $(printf %040d $i) || framework_failure_
done
cd .. || framework_failure_


# On a buggy system, this would fail with the diagnostic,
# "cannot remove directory 'b': Directory not empty"
rm -rf b  || fail=1

test -d b && fail=1

Exit $fail