Re: Darwin HFS+ bug

2006-09-26 Thread Paul Eggert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does the new coreutils+gnulib call sync(2) at > appropriate places? coreutils calls 'sync' only in the 'sync' and 'shred' and 'df --sync' commands, which are irrelevant here. Applications should never have to call 'sync' to do ordinary things like remove files, so I

Re: Darwin HFS+ bug

2006-09-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mwoehlke wrote: >> I am also noticing that >> after making coreutils (and some other packages, I think bash was one), >> to remove the directory, I have to 'rm -rf coreutils-5.97' as many as >> four times before it fully goes away. Odd that just doing it s

Re: Darwin HFS+ bug

2006-09-26 Thread Bruno Haible
mwoehlke wrote: > I am also noticing that > after making coreutils (and some other packages, I think bash was one), > to remove the directory, I have to 'rm -rf coreutils-5.97' as many as > four times before it fully goes away. Odd that just doing it several > times in succession works, though.