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Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by dark-star »

collinfunk wrote: post #5

I really don't understand why Canonical rushes this. If 'rm' can't remove all possible directory entries, that is a big issue: $ podman run --rm -it ubuntu:26.10 $ apt update -y; apt upgrade -y $ rm --version rm (uutils coreutils) 0.10.0 $ gnumkdir -p $(yes a/ | head -n $((32 * 1024)) | tr -d '\n') $ rm -rf a Segmentation fault (core dumped) rm -rf a $ ls a a $ gnurm -rf a $ ls a ls: cannot access 'a': No such file o…

yeah, this is a bug. And yes, it should be fixed. But I don't think it will affect many users, I mean who has a 32000 -evels deep directory on their system?

Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by secondcoming »

dark-star wrote: post #21
collinfunk wrote: post #5

I really don't understand why Canonical rushes this. If 'rm' can't remove all possible directory entries, that is a big issue: $ podman run --rm -it ubuntu:26.10 $ apt update -y; apt upgrade -y $ rm --version rm (uutils coreutils) 0.10.0 $ gnumkdir -p $(yes a/ | head -n $((32 * 1024)) | tr -d '\n') $ rm -rf a Segmentation fault (core dumped) rm -rf a $ ls a a $ gnurm -rf a $ ls a ls: cannot access 'a': No such file o…

yeah, this is a bug. And yes, it should be fixed. But I don't think it will affect many users, I mean who has a 32000 -evels deep directory on their system?

That way of thinking just means it'll never be fixed

Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by teekert »

testdelacc1 wrote: post #20
_ink_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to elaborate?

“Concerning” is just a right wing thing to say. They get the habit from Musk. They say it and don’t elaborate, so it kinda operates like a dog whistle.

Great "elaboration" (actually it's an "example"), indeed pulling everything into the political dimension is one of the concerning things regarding anything Linux nowadays, imho. Next up: DHH!

Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by gpm »

secondcoming wrote: post #22
dark-star wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, this is a bug. And yes, it should be fixed. But I don't think it will affect many users, I mean who has a 32000 -evels deep directory on their system?

That way of thinking just means it'll never be fixed

Nah, people should (and do) fix small issues as well as big issues. Lying about the scale of issues and calling them "big" when they aren't just leads to no ability to prioritize or evaluate.

Incidentally someone submitted a PR for this issue about 3 hours before the first comment about it in this thread - https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/14554 (and 2 hours before this link was submitted to HN)

Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by abirch »

secondcoming wrote: post #22
dark-star wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, this is a bug. And yes, it should be fixed. But I don't think it will affect many users, I mean who has a 32000 -evels deep directory on their system?

That way of thinking just means it'll never be fixed

"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it." Linus Torvalds

Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by 7bit »

secondcoming wrote: post #22
dark-star wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, this is a bug. And yes, it should be fixed. But I don't think it will affect many users, I mean who has a 32000 -evels deep directory on their system?

That way of thinking just means it'll never be fixed

What approach would you suggest for priorisation of tickets?
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