greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin) (02/13/91)
Hi all,
Lately, (last 2 days) I have noticed a strange problem in 1.3 minix.
I am unable to execute an "ls" command with a wildcard in certain
directories. I am trying to build libc.a for V1.5.10. in /usr/src/lib.
If I type "ls *.s | wc -l" to figure out how many .s files I have, the
hard disk light flickers and stops. If I press "F1" to get the process
list, "ls" and "wc" are not there! From this point, I am hung, so I
have to use CTRL-ALT-F9 to get back.
I ran fsck on the disk, and the directory in question is flagged as
huge, with 388 inodes. Is this part of the problem? Is there a
limit to the number of files that the shell can expand? If I just
type "ls", it reports "Out of space".
What should I do? :-)
Thanks for any help,
--
Greg Larkin (ASIC Engineer)
Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (The CAE Company)
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--------------------------------------------HIGGINS@ge-dab.ge.com (Sean C. Higgins 8*259-2073) (02/13/91)
>From: Gregory Larkin <mcnc!VM1.NoDak.EDU!greg%MOBIUS.VIEWLOGIC.COM> > >Hi all, > >Lately, (last 2 days) I have noticed a strange problem in 1.3 minix. > >I am unable to execute an "ls" command with a wildcard in certain >directories. I am trying to build libc.a for V1.5.10. in /usr/src/lib. >If I type "ls *.s | wc -l" to figure out how many .s files I have, the >hard disk light flickers and stops. If I press "F1" to get the process >list, "ls" and "wc" are not there! From this point, I am hung, so I >have to use CTRL-ALT-F9 to get back. > >I ran fsck on the disk, and the directory in question is flagged as >huge, with 388 inodes. Is this part of the problem? Is there a >limit to the number of files that the shell can expand? If I just >type "ls", it reports "Out of space". > >What should I do? :-) > >Thanks for any help, >-- >Greg Larkin (ASIC Engineer) >Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (The CAE Company) >293 Boston Post Road West ____________________________________________ >Marlboro, MA 01752 |"This is a fragile ball we are living on; | >508 480 0881 x321 |it's a miracle and we are destroying it.."| >Email: greg@Viewlogic.COM |Peter Garrett, Midnight Oil | > -------------------------------------------- In searching through the many messages that I have saved from MINIX, I found the following that might help you with your problem: >From: Andy Tanenbaum <ast%CS.VU.NL@VM1.NoDak.EDU> >Subject: Re: ls *.s >In article <550@fred.UUCP> bill@fred.UUCP (Bill Poitras) writes: >>I am using the new ls that allow mult-column output. My minix is 1.4a >>running on a IBM-AT @ 6MHz. When I do 'ls *.s' I get 'parameter list >>too long' ( or is that 'argument list...'? ) Any way, why doesn't that >>work? > >MINIX, in contrast to UNIX, builds the stack given to exec in user space. >Only 2K is presently allocated for it. This is not enough. I didn't want to >make it bigger because it makes all programs bigger, and I am so frugal. >People have been complaining about this for years. Relief is in sight. >POSIX specifically says that this limit must be at least 4K. I will change it >to conform to POSIX. For the time being, change MM_STACK_BYTES to 4096 and >recompile all the libraries, all the utilities, the operating > system--everything. >The routine exec knows about this size and it is used all over the place. > >Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) I hope that this helps... Sean
heinsbr%svcentld%HDEDH1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Anton Heinsbroek) (02/15/91)
Hello, I've read Greg Larkin's message about the strange behaviour of ls in large directories. I recall some message which stated that with version 1.5 the sources of the library functions have been splitted up over several subdirectories since 'ls did not work in large directories'. So I think you are right with your assumption. Greetings, Anton Heinsbroek (heinsbr%svcentld@HDEDH1)