Martin Fuhrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using rm from the fileutils package, installed from source via the > fink distribution on Mac OS X 10.2.8. I notice that rm -rf frequently > fails for directories with large numbers of files in them. For > example, after installing unpacking and installing kdelibs from > /sw/src, rm -rf is unable remove some of the directories. > The standard BSD installed rm in /bin/rm has no problems. > a sample terminal session below. ... > rm (fileutils) 4.1
Thank you for the report. That is due to a bug in the Darwin/MacOS implementation of readdir. I added code to detect and work around the bug in newer versions of rm. See the comments and code in m4/readdir.m4 if you're interested in the details. The precise number of files beyond which the problem arose for Darwin was 338. The BSD version of /bin/rm works because it uses a different approach -- one requiring more memory. fileutils 4.1 is quite old. There have been many other improvements since then. STABLE ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2 (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils) BETA ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.bz2 _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
