[fpc-devel]Re: fpc-devel digest, Vol 1 #1736 - 4 msgs

[Joost van der Sluis]

> I think this is a critical bug. I've also got lots of troubles with the 
> Linux compiler lately: it often gets in an endless loop. When I strace 
> it, you can see it keeps fstat'ing "." and ".." in succession, without 
> ever going to the next item. So it's probably related to this bug.

That's sounds like this bug, yes. I had that problem also. But I can
imagine that patching so close before a release can give some problems...

A good test is to run the following program from /usr/lib (or another
LARGE directory.) Maybe Peter could try that once with a new kernel?

---
program test_readdir;

var str : string;

begin
  getdir(0,str);
  writeln(str);
end.
---

Joost van der Sluis.