Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Steve Dahl Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Bash 4.3.30 on AIX 6.1 filename completion Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 20:50:38 -0400 Lines: 28 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1438564406 20975 208.118.235.17 (3 Aug 2015 01:13:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=6UsD5Y5Q4XxbhPjob/7I0E7wHQ+AoIW/hWpXPTHe9+k=; b=CsA0E21Sip7OstW6iEUBJgzm3W3K7PEM4grj1WH+mIPcnpmWRQybWL5KUmjrgf2C9+ e1RIa24oEs8bBo6RtJt1KgPItQQIuF6SY8MmH0hqjv2hji3IjrFJeJoM1E5WPNoUl765 Vv/aZhot/QOMSfRxe32/DAo6I+V4cSmJJKEK3cZI4Jfh0PQgXSzWmEiBKEhoGwFygCXX k60p1eSRcJqODQ77/HWL2FrqXFUkEPiVKZ8pWwa5prc/ABpeGPnUD/qGT1zO0Kv9po8s BOCJtA/vH8CHhrtdhXTBz8iNwzaWTEVkAlUE2HWtLknjesWDdu94RsYGmUJK75dFPvFh 3FIg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkMCipkkiz892iAa2BdSsvarjRfPe3Zmvtp8oK9cWnANwp1UQLKxkJnZ5jcjFVgTEu7TQ6L X-Received: by 10.52.38.197 with SMTP id i5mr22628956vdk.52.1438563042082; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:50:42 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.213.52 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 21:13:24 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11285 If on AIX 6.1, I mount an NFS volume exported from CentOS 6.7, Bash (4.3.30) is unable to do tab completion within that file system. If (for example) I search for files that I know exist, such as: ls -l /path/to/files/*.h ...no answers are returned even though ls -l /path/to/files ...will show those files. In the course of trying to understand why AIX didn't like our new NFS server, I found that bash's glob.c depends on opendir(), and that in a simple test on that NFS file system, opendir() fails with EOVERFLOW. The AIX man page for opendir() documents opendir64() but doesn't go into a lot of detail about what it's for other than the inferred hint that it might allow for file sizes larger than 4 GB. The same simple test that gets EOVERFLOW when I use opendir() indeed seems to succeed when I use opendir64(). Once you know the answer, you can find hints on IBM forums that seem to confirm it. Is there already a version of "bash" somewhere that already supports large file systems on AIX if its compilation is configured right?