Re: 8.21.2-c53c - failure on rm/deep-2 and du/long-from-unreadable

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/18/2013 06:14 PM, C de-Avillez wrote:
> Both tests failed at the same point:
>
> foreach my $i (1..52)' -e '  { mkdir ($d, 0700) && chdir $d or die "$!" }'
> File name too long at -e line 2.
>
> I do not remember seeing this error anytime recently (but I have been
> lax on running the tests, sorry).
>
> I have attached both logs here.
>
> Ubuntu Raring, kernel 3.8.0-6.13-generic (3.8.0-rc7), libc6
> 2.17-0ubuntu4.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ..C..

Just a test setup failure, but interesting nonetheless.

Is wonder is something new adding in new PATH_MAX checks?
What file system is this? Does it happen if you use the shell snippet in
tests/du/long-from-unreadable.sh rather than the perl snippet?

thanks,
Pádraig.