On 2020-04-16 18:01, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 4/16/20 6:36 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > >> I installed it in my local findutils tree, but find still crashes: > > Thanks for checking. Do you have a reproducer for that?
The same as in the original post. https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2020-04/msg00068.html With the patch: $ while :; do date ; ~berny/findutils/find/find /opt -name mess; done Thu Apr 16 18:29:30 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:29:31 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:29:31 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:29:31 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:29:32 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:29:32 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:29:32 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:29:33 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:29:33 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:29:33 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:29:34 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:29:34 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:29:35 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:29:35 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:29:35 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:29:36 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:29:36 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:29:37 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:29:37 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:29:37 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:29:38 CEST 2020 ^C Without the patch: $ while :; do date ; /usr/bin/find /opt -name mess; done Thu Apr 16 18:30:16 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:30:16 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:30:16 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:30:16 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:30:16 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:30:17 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:30:17 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:30:17 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:30:17 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:30:17 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:30:17 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:30:17 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:30:17 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:30:18 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:30:18 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:30:18 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:30:18 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:30:18 CEST 2020 Thu Apr 16 18:30:18 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:30:18 CEST 2020 Aborted (core dumped) Thu Apr 16 18:30:19 CEST 2020 ^C So not much difference. >> Did it fix the crash for you (maybe in du(1))? > > Yes, the patch fixed 'du' when I was running 'du' in an XFS filesystem that > was > being mutated by a different process that was creating subdirectories. > Without > the fix, 'du' often (but not always) crashed; with the fix 'du' never crashed > in > the dozen times I tried. okay, strange - eventually I have time to try the same with du(1) later this evening. Have a nice day, Berny
