On 17/01/2025 14:02, Bruno Haible wrote:
Building a coreutils + gnulib snapshot from yesterday
on GNU/Hurd (x86_64) [1]:
The test 'wc/wc-total' hangs the file system. The first time I had to
reboot. The second time, Ctrl-C was sufficient to interrupt it.
[1]
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-amd64/debian-hurd-20241115.img.tar.xz
I presume this is the `truncate -s 2E big` causing the issue.
Is this hurd or ext2 specific I wonder. Perhaps we should explicitly avoid ext2
with:
test "$(df --output=fstype /boot | tail -n1)" = 'ext2' && echo skip_ 'ext2
not supported'
cheers,
Pádraig
