Re: Is this a bug?

From	Valentin Bajrami <valentin.bajrami@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Is this a bug?
Date	2020-08-06 23:27 +0200
Message-ID	<mailman.1053.1596749261.2739.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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Are you trying to run autocompletion on an nfs mount? Are you using ''ls''
to autocomplete and if so did you run \ls /path/to/dir .. ?

Maybe worth to mention the bash version you are using.


Op do 6 aug. 2020 19:53 schreef George R Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I apologize for bothering you with this question.
>
> 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?
>
> Again, I apologize for bothering you with this.
>
> Best regards,
>
> George...
>
>

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Re: Is this a bug? Valentin Bajrami <valentin.bajrami@gmail.com> - 2020-08-06 23:27 +0200

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