Re: Deleting owned files...

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

Andreas Schwab writes:
> Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au> writes:
> 
> |> sed (built 2.03, doesn't appear to work properly - may need more stack)
> 
> Yes, the GNU regex package needs atleast 20k of stack.

 btw i've had to give it >200K stack before it processed a 200K file
without crash...  and then i went back to sed 1.18 :-/
> 
> |> To anyone attempting to run an FSF configure script :
> 
> |> If it hangs at the eleventh hour (literally, the taylor script 
> |> takes about an hour running with Bash in fastram on a 4/4 TT)
> |> while creating config.status, the offending line looks like this :
> 
> |> # on host `(hostname || uname -n) 2>/dev/null |sed 1q `:
> 
> This is strange.  I never had problems executing this line with my
> version of bash, but then it have both hostname and uname lying around
> (hostname is just uname -n).  But even when hostname is missing it
> still doesn't hang.

 may depend on the shell, i.e. could be one of those wonderful
blocking-fork deadlocks...  although i haven't yet seen configure
hanging myself.  (my /bin/sh is ash from sh03*zoo on a.a)

 cheers
	Juergen
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