Re: [Bug-tar] GNU Tar 1.28 configuration test for deep directory hierarchy failing on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/13/2015 12:37 PM, Charles Diza wrote:
> But the "confdir-14B--" tree is a different story.  No such gradual 
> pruning works, and neither does coreutils' `rm`.  (The latter says "No 
> space left on device", whatever that means.)

What system calls does coreutils rm execute?  E.g., something like this:

sudo dtruss -f sudo -u $USER rm -fr confdir-14B--

(This is complicated because OS X apparently doesn't have anything 
simple like 'strace'.)