Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are three patches: > The first relaxes "make distcheck" so it'll pass even after > the 2nd goes in (it introduces several c99 stmt-after-decl). > > The 2nd patch does the same thing for rm that I did for fts: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/14808 > > i.e., this change makes rm process dir entry names in sorted > inode order, when that's sensible. > > Adding the test to exercise/exhibit the fix was interesting. > I classified it as "expensive", so it doesn't run by default: > it creates and removes 400,000 files. The removal takes about > 10s on a reasonably modern system. If it takes more than 1 minute, > that's deemed a failure. Without the patch, the removal takes almost > 6 *minutes* with a fast system. If you want to run just > that one test, do this: > > make -C tests TESTS=rm/ext3-perf RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes VERBOSE=yes > > The 3rd patch fixes remove.c to be closer to library-ready, > by removing uses of xmalloc and by adjusting the existing obstack- > using code so that obstack allocation doesn't provoke an exit.
I've pushed those patches with some small additional changes. Thanks to those who gave feedback. I'd like to put a test release on alpha.gnu.org next week, so if you have any pending problem reports or patches, post them to the list soon. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
