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Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:42:17 +0200 |
Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/26/2011 12:18 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Regarding NTFS, can you point to a real gnulib-using application that is
>> misbehaving because of this? I've seen that some NTFS implementations
>> *do* have usable inode support. Both cygwin and fuse-based ones do,
>> so you must mean mingw.
>
> Yes, I mean mingw. I was quoting MS docs.
>
>> > However, we could fix that in gnulib.
>>
>> Is it possible to do that without a run-time penalty?
>
> We would need to reimplement stat on MinGW. So it would completely
> bypass the C library and should have comparable performance. If not,
> you pay the price on MinGW only.
>
> I'll run some tests on a real Windows machine.
I don't know about typical mingw file system usage.
Do mingw users use NTFS often?
google searches for "mingw ntfs" (716k) suggest it's
more often written about than "mingw ext3" (318k).
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Jim Meyering, 2011/07/23
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Jim Meyering, 2011/07/24
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/07/24
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Jim Meyering, 2011/07/24
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/07/25
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Jim Meyering, 2011/07/26
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/07/26
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/07/26
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Jim Meyering, 2011/07/26
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/07/27
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Jim Meyering, 2011/07/27
- Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop, Bastien ROUCARIES, 2011/07/27