Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 4/16/07, Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Building the new coreutils fails on two of my machines in the test phase:
>>
>> PASS: printf-hex
>> pwd-long: at depth 29: No space left on device
>> FAIL: pwd-long
>>
>> The error message is bogus: Both machines have several GB free on the
>> partition. Also the inode usage is at less than 60%.
>>
>> I can repeat the failure with the following extract from the test
>> program. This perl script creates nested subdirectories (256 deep with
>> 31 char dir names). On two other machines (one ppc and one intel) where
>> I tried this, there was no problem - except for getting rid of the
>> directory afterwards ;-)
>>
>> On the two machines where I see the failure, I get
>>
>> % ./pwd-long-fail
>> mkdir: at depth 30: No space left on device
>>
>> Here is the "pwd-long-fail" script if anyone wants to try:
>>
>> ------------------
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>> my $z = 'z' x 31;
>> my $n = 256;
>> my $i = 0;
>> do
>> {
>> mkdir $z, 0700
>> or die "mkdir: at depth $i: $!\n";
>> chdir $z;
>> }
>> until (++$i == $n);
>> --------------------
>>
>> Has anyone seen such a failure before? Or should I file a bug with Apple?
>>
>> --
>> Martin
> I didn't get such a failure on my system (single-processor G4/800
> running 10.4.9).
WFM on 1.6GHz iMac G5 with 10.3.9
Hanspeter
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