Package: squashfs-tools-ng Version: 1.1.4-1 Severity: minor The error text "Too many links" from EMLINK is intended to refer to the number of hard links to an inode, but is misused in fstree_mknode (mknode.c) to mean "directory has too many entries" (perhaps a squashfs limit?). This is confusing and doesn't help the user find the offending part of the directory structure. Reading the source code was required to determine the real problem.
Also, the name of the offending directory is not printed, so once the real problem is identified, finding the directory requires a little shell scripting to be used with find -exec to get the information that could have been printed by gensquashfs with the error message. In fstree_from_dir.c:populate_dir where fstree_mknode is called, you could check errno for EMLINK and print a more informative message instead of calling perror. I did not look at calls to fstree_mknode in other files, but there are only a few to check; perhaps they would also benefit from a similar fix. Thanks...Marvin -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (200, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages squashfs-tools-ng depends on: ii libc6 2.33-7 ii liblzma5 5.2.5-2.1 ii liblzo2-2 2.10-2 ii libselinux1 3.3-1+b2 ii libsquashfs1 1.1.4-1 ii libzstd1 1.5.2+dfsg-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-4 squashfs-tools-ng recommends no packages. squashfs-tools-ng suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
