My patch of Monday (2004-10-18) was wrong.
Here's a fix that introduces fewer bugs.
I've added a test for the cross-partition mv failure
and another that makes rm fail with Monday's patch.
2004-10-21 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tests/mv/leak-fd: New file.
* tests/mv/Make
Cyril Bouthors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Please also note that mv does not fail when "too many open files"
> messages occur, it just keep on warning for each file (~9000 warnings
> in the initial example) and does not move anything.
True. Neither mv nor rm exit immediately when they encoun
On 18 Oct 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks a lot for that report.
You are welcome.
> It is indeed a bug.
Thanks for the fix.
Please also note that mv does not fail when "too many open files"
messages occur, it just keep on warning for each file (~9000 warnings
in the initial example) an
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's how I reproduced it, both with coreutils 5.2.1 and with CVS
> coreutils. On my host, /tmp and /home are different file systems;
> this is a crucial part of the bug.
>
>ulimit -n 1024
>cd /home/eggert/junk
>mkdir foo /tmp/foo
>cd foo
>
Cyril Bouthors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having problems when moving everything from a directory that
> contains 10852 top level directories and a total of ~30+ files and
> subdirectories with this command:
Thanks a lot for that report.
It is indeed a bug.
Here's the fix:
Plug
Paul Eggert wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> > I am unable to reproduce the problem locally.
>
> I think your attempt didn't capture all the relevant parts of the bug.
You have sharp eyes!
> Here's how I reproduced it
Very good!
Bob
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> I am unable to reproduce the problem locally.
I think your attempt didn't capture all the relevant parts of the bug.
Here's how I reproduced it, both with coreutils 5.2.1 and with CVS
coreutils. On my host, /tmp and /home are different file systems;
this
Cyril Bouthors wrote:
> I'm having problems when moving everything from a directory that
> contains 10852 top level directories and a total of ~30+ files and
> subdirectories with this command:
>
> # mv * ../../../webalizer-clients/
>
> It fails with:
>
> mv: cannot create regular file
> `.
Hi,
I'm having problems when moving everything from a directory that
contains 10852 top level directories and a total of ~30+ files and
subdirectories with this command:
# mv * ../../../webalizer-clients/
It fails with:
mv: cannot create regular file
`../../../webalizer-clients/bouthors/us
