Re: mv fails with "Too many open files" when moving _many_ files

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:

> I am unable to reproduce the problem locally.

I think your attempt didn't capture all the relevant parts of the bug.

Here's how I reproduced it, both with coreutils 5.2.1 and with CVS
coreutils.  On my host, /tmp and /home are different file systems;
this is a crucial part of the bug.

   ulimit -n 1024
   cd /home/eggert/junk
   mkdir foo /tmp/foo
   cd foo
   for f in $(seq 1 1500); do mkdir $f; touch $f/f; done
   mv * /tmp/foo

The output is:

mv: cannot create regular file `/tmp/foo/566/f': Too many open files
mv: cannot create regular file `/tmp/foo/567/f': Too many open files
mv: cannot create regular file `/tmp/foo/568/f': Too many open files
...