Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] tar: more reliable directory traversal when creating archives

[Eric Blake]

On 09/07/2010 03:30 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 09/07/2010 02:37 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > > on NetBSD 5.0.2 it's just 128.  While most
> > > distribution tarballs fit easily within such a limitation, when you
> > > use tar to perform backups, you might find such a low number to be a
> > > serious limitation.  Even 1024 seems far too low for a tool like tar.
> >
> > Yeowch.  What are those NetBSD guys _thinking_ (:-)?  Anyway, I will try to
> > fix 'tar' so that it doesn't need a file descriptor for each level of
> > the directory hierarchy.
>
> For the record, here are some more numbers (output of "getconf OPEN_MAX"):
>    openBSD 4.7     128
>    sunos 5.11      256
>    darwin 9.8.0    256
>    freeBSD 8.0   11095
>    linux 2.6.36   1024

     Cygwin 1.7.7    320

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