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From: greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Weird problem with V1.3
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.111058@mobius.Viewlogic.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 91 16:10:58 GMT
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Reply-To: greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin)
Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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Hi all,

Lately, (last 2 days) I have noticed a strange problem in 1.3 minix.

I am unable to execute an "ls" command with a wildcard in certain
directories.  I am trying to build libc.a for V1.5.10. in /usr/src/lib.
If I type "ls *.s | wc -l" to figure out how many .s files I have, the
hard disk light flickers and stops.  If I press "F1" to get the process
list, "ls" and "wc" are not there!  From this point, I am hung, so I
have to use CTRL-ALT-F9 to get back.

I ran fsck on the disk, and the directory in question is flagged as 
huge, with 388 inodes.  Is this part of the problem?  Is there a 
limit to the number of files that the shell can expand?  If I just
type "ls", it reports "Out of space".

What should I do? :-)

Thanks for any help,
--
Greg Larkin (ASIC Engineer)
Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (The CAE Company)
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