Re: Is this a bug?

From	Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncharov@users.sf.net>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Is this a bug?
Date	2020-08-06 14:39 -0400
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 1:54 PM George R Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have several directories on a system with > 300k files. When I use filename completion bash freezes for over a minute depending on the number of files. I'm pretty sure that bash has to read the directory to do the completion but the read appears to be uninterruptible. Is this a bug?

Why don't you run strace (or truss or whatever you have on your
system) and see which syscall bash is blocked in?

regards, Dmitry

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Re: Is this a bug? Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncharov@users.sf.net> - 2020-08-06 14:39 -0400

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