On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 1:54 PM George R Goffe <grgo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have several directories on a system with > 300k files. When I use filename > completion bash freezes for over a minute depending on the number of files. > I'm pretty sure that bash has to read the directory to do the completion but > the read appears to be uninterruptible. Is this a bug?
Why don't you run strace (or truss or whatever you have on your system) and see which syscall bash is blocked in? regards, Dmitry
