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<H1>[Mageia-sysadm] [1827] add small maintdb script</H1>
<B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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<I>Sat Jul 30 01:23:59 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Op vrijdag 29 juli 2011 17:11:00 schreef Michael Scherer:
><i> Le vendredi 29 juillet 2011 à 16:55 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
</I>><i> > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
</I>><i> > > > +function maintgetall()
</I>><i> > > > +{
</I>><i> > > > + cd "$MAINTDBDIR"
</I>><i> > > > + for file in *
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > Wouldn't this one have problem the day we have too much maintainers ?
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > too much packages ?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Mhh, yes :)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > > ( even if "too much" is, according to my test, more than 60000 so this
</I>><i> > > is just a retorical question )
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > According to tune2fs we have 1148096 free inodes, so that should be
</I>><i> > enough. I don't know the limit for the "*" expansion.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> There used to be one, but maybe it was just in a time when kernel 2.4
</I>><i> was hype :)
</I>><i> ( or maybe that was on a bsd or os x ).
</I>
iirc * expansion is shell dependant and was 255 in the early days and may have
been 16383, but i think it's 65535 now for a while... i know certain 2.6
kernels do have a limit, because i ran into it once (don't ask)
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