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coreutils package

  1. Bug #506798
  2. Comment #69

Comment 69 for bug 506798

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In , Kamil (kamil-redhat-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #46)
> A patch for gnulib proposed upstream:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-11/msg00027.html

The patch has been rejected by upstream because of performance impact in some obscure situations (namely traversing a directory which consists of 200000 directories nested in each other):

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-11/msg00032.html

As solution it was proposed to find (or perhaps implement?) a low cost way of recognizing a mount point during the traversal. "low cost" means cheaper than a stat call here.

Since there seems to be nothing I can do with this bug at the moment, I am reassigning it back to kernel.