Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You mean you've found *another* problem with GNU rm? >> Is so, please provide details.
Hi Bruno, This is a bug, but it's not in GNU rm. I'm not even going to try to work around it before coreutils-6.3. Given all of the O/S bugs exposed by coreutils' test suite, users of Darwin 7.9.0 should be rushing to upgrade, if at all possible. > The second bug is harder to reproduce. > I have a big tar file with hard links in it. ... > I unpack it on a HFS+ volume: > $ tar xvf cross-hppa.tar > > Then I unmount the volume on the MacOS X machine and mount it again. > (Alternatively, it appears that waiting a few hours has the same effect.) > > Then I try to remove the tree from a Linux machine, via a NFS mount: > > $ uname -a > Linux linuix 2.4.21-99-default #1 Wed Sep 24 13:30:51 UTC 2003 i686 GNU/Linux > $ rm -r cross > rm: cannot remove directory `cross/hppa-linux/bin': Directory not empty > ... > [After 15 more attempts, to empty the directories that can be emptied:] > $ rm -r cross > rm: cannot remove `cross/hppa-linux-tools/bin/hppa-linux-ar': Input/output > error Yes, that's a lot harder to reproduce. Thanks for all of the details. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
