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* NEWS: rm works around a bug in Darwin 8.6.1 w/NFS that kept

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it from removing a directory containing 188 or more entries.
* src/remove.c (CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD): Decrease by
20, go work around the buggy readdir on Darwin 8.6.1 with NFS.
Reported by Matthew Woehlke.
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2006-09-26 20:42:43 +00:00
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2006-09-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* NEWS: rm works around a bug in Darwin 8.6.1 w/NFS that kept
it from removing a directory containing 188 or more entries.
* src/remove.c (CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD): Decrease by
20, go work around the buggy readdir on Darwin 8.6.1 with NFS.
Reported by Matthew Woehlke.
2006-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* NEWS: "groups user" no longer outputs "user :"; you need at least

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** Improved robustness
rm works around a bug in Darwin 8.6.1 w/NFS that kept it from removing
a directory containing 188 or more entries.
sort would fail to handle very large input (around 40GB) on systems with a
mkstemp function that returns a file descriptor limited to 32-bit offsets.

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SunOS's readdir when applied to ufs file systems and Darwin 6.5's
(and OSX v.10.3.8's) HFS+. This maximum is conservative in that
demonstrating the problem seems to require a directory containing
at least 254 deletable entries (which doesn't count . and ..), so
we could conceivably increase the maximum value to 254. */
at least 254 deletable entries (which doesn't count . and ..).
However, in 2006, we see that Darwin 8.6.1, using NFS has an even
lower limit: 188. */
enum
{
CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD = 200
CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD = 180
};
enum Ternary