Erik Auerswald wrote: > there is a typo in the NEWS entry: > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 06:24:46PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> [...] >> + fts-using tools (rm, du, chmod, chgrp, chown, chcon) no longer use memory >> + proportional to the number of entries in each directory they process. >> + Before, rm -rf 4-million-entry-directory would consume about 1GiB of >> memory. >> + Now, it uses less than 30GB, no matter how many entries there are.
Thanks! I've fixed it with this: >From 423b079f5324b9097d487e752b71a8399b970ba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Auerswald <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:12:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: correct typo in yesterday's NEWS entry: 30GB -> 30MB * NEWS: s/30GB/30MB/ --- NEWS | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b356a03..569c33b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- fts-using tools (rm, du, chmod, chgrp, chown, chcon) no longer use memory proportional to the number of entries in each directory they process. Before, rm -rf 4-million-entry-directory would consume about 1GiB of memory. - Now, it uses less than 30GB, no matter how many entries there are. + Now, it uses less than 30MB, no matter how many entries there are. [this bug was inherent in the use of fts: thus, for rm the bug was introduced in coreutils-8.0. The prior implementation of rm did not use as much memory. du, chmod, chgrp and chown started using fts in 6.0. -- 1.7.6.857.gf34cf
