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 -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
