Re: weird bash autocomplete issue

["Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 15:17, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:59 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:45, Roland <devzero@web.de> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 22:41 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> > open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
>> >>> > fstat64(3, {st_dev=makedev(0, 19), st_ino=256, st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, >
>> >>> > st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, > st_size=18,
>> >>> > st_atime=2008/12/16-21:32:38, st_mtime=2008/12/16-21:32:37, >
>> >>> > st_ctime=2008/12/16-21:32:37}) = 0
>> >>> > getdents64(3, {{d_ino=256, d_off=2, d_type=DT_DIR, d_reclen=24, >
>> >>> > d_name="."} {d_ino=256, d_off=2, d_type=DT_DIR, d_reclen=24, > d_name=".."}
>> >>> > {d_ino=257, d_off=3, d_type=DT_DIR, d_reclen=24, > d_name="test"}
>> >>> > {d_ino=258, d_off=9223372036854775807, d_type=DT_DIR, > d_reclen=32,
>> >>> > d_name="linux"}}, 4096) = 104
>> >>> > _llseek(3, 3, [3], SEEK_SET)            = 0
>> >>> > getdents64(3, {{d_ino=258, d_off=9223372036854775807, d_type=DT_DIR, >
>> >>> > d_reclen=32, d_name="linux"}}, 4096) = 32
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 22:26,  <devzero@web.de> wrote:
>> >>> > i assume it has something to do with the large value for d_off of the >
>> >>> > last dirent ?
>> >>>
>> >>> Looks like, 9223372036854775807 is just LLONG_MAX.
>> >>
>> >> I can not reproduce that (on openSUSE 11.1). I also don't see
>> >> the _llseek() calls.
>> >
>> > weird. no btrfs issue then !?
>> >
>> >>
>> >> open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
>> >> fstat(3, {st_dev=makedev(0, 18), ...
>> >> getdents64(3, {
>> >>  {d_ino=260, d_off=2, d_type=DT_DIR, d_reclen=24, d_name="."}
>> >>  {d_ino=256, d_off=2, d_type=DT_DIR, d_reclen=24, d_name=".."}
>> >>  {d_ino=261, d_off=3, d_type=DT_REG, d_reclen=24, d_name="a"}
>> >>  {d_ino=262, d_off=4, d_type=DT_REG, d_reclen=24, d_name="b"}
>> >>  {d_ino=263, d_off=5, d_type=DT_REG, d_reclen=24, d_name="c"}
>> >>  {d_ino=264, d_off=6, d_type=DT_DIR, d_reclen=24, d_name="test"}
>> >>  {d_ino=265, d_off=9223372036854775807, d_type=DT_DIR, d_reclen=32,
>> >> d_name="linux"}
>> >> }, 4096) = 176
>> >> getdents64(3, {}, 4096)                 = 0
>> >> close(3)
>> >>
>> >> This is with today's git kernel and today's standalone btrfs unstable.
>> >>
>> >> You are using the distro kernel and compile the standalone btrfs module?
>> >
>> > yes.
>> > to be honest, i`m slightly newer than 11.1 (did zypper dup to latest factory
>> > some days ago)
>> >
>> > linux:~ # bash -version
>> > GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i586-suse-linux-gnu)
>> > Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> That is still the same bash, the one you use is a 32bit version. Do
>> you run a 32 bit kernel too? I could try that on a 32 bit box then.
>
> At least on my 32 bit box, tab completion works fine.

It works fine here too on 64 bit. I'll try with openSUSE 11.1 on a
32bit box later tonight.

> But, the d_off of
> LLONG_MAX comes from btrfs_readdir().  Git had a feature where it would
> loop infinitely over a directory in some cases and this was my
> workaround.

There are other filesystems doing the same, usually with 32bit int max
instead of 64 bit int max, I guess that should work fine.

> This should be fixed in git by now, so I can drop it if that really is
> causing problems in bash.

I'll come back if I can reproduce it with the same environment Roland is using.

Kay