Hi! El 21/07/23 a las 11:02, Boyuan Yang escribió: > Hi, > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 10:39:54 +0200 Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > > Control: severity -1 grave > > Control: tags -1 - moreinfo > > Control: retitle -1 grep -r on 100000+ files fails with "Operation not > supported" > > > > On 2023-07-20 23:43:45 -0300, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > > > El 21/07/23 a las 04:06, Vincent Lefevre escribió: > > > > On 2023-07-21 03:30:12 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > There is a major regression in grep 3.11-1: I now get an error > > > > > > > > > > cventin:~/Mail> grep -r xxxyyyzzz oldarc > > > > > grep: oldarc/cur: Operation not supported > > > > > > > > And no such issue with grep from the upstream git. > > > > > > How are you compiling it? > > > > $ ./bootstrap > > $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/grep > > $ make > > $ make install > > > > > My intuition is this comes from gnulib. > > > > Yes, as in my next message, I said that the error disappeared > > with the commit that updated gnulib (and did nothing else). > > > > > But a reproducer is needed to confirm. > > > > > > Tagging with moreinfo, and downgrading the severity since I cannot > > > reproduce it myself: > > [...] > > > Please, feel free to bump the severity back again if you are able to > > > find out a way to reproduce it. > > > > One needs at least 100000 files in the directory (99999 is not enough). > > With 100000 empty files: > > > > $ mkdir test-dir && for i in `seq 100000` ; do : > test-dir/$i ; done > > $ grep -r x test-dir > > grep: test-dir: Operation not supported > > Debian gnulib package maintainer here. I briefly checked grep source code, > and it seems that grep is using the bundled gnulib and not using the packaged > gnulib. Not 100% sure.
It indeed currently uses a bundled gnulib. > > Whether to use the bundled gnulib is up to the packager's decision. Anyway, > let me know if I could help. I suppose we could give the packaged gnulib a try. Patches welcome ;-) Cheers, -- S
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