[Mageia-sysadm] [1827] add small maintdb script

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 29 juli 2011 17:11:00 schreef Michael Scherer:
> Le vendredi 29 juillet 2011 à 16:55 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
> > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
> > > > +function maintgetall()
> > > > +{
> > > > +    cd "$MAINTDBDIR"
> > > > +    for file in *
> > > 
> > > Wouldn't this one have problem the day we have too much maintainers ?
> > 
> > too much packages ?
> 
> Mhh, yes :)
> 
> > > ( even if "too much" is, according to my test, more than 60000 so this
> > > is just a retorical question )
> > 
> > According to tune2fs we have 1148096 free inodes, so that should be
> > enough. I don't know the limit for the "*" expansion.
> 
> There used to be one, but maybe it was just in a time when kernel 2.4
> was hype :)
> ( or maybe that was on a bsd or os x ).

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)