Re: [Tcllib-devel] fileutil::find in tcllib 1.17 does not come back when used on /sys/devices

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Frank Storm <Fra...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
>> Please report this at the ticket system at
>>     https://core.tcl.tk/tcllib/tktnew
>
> ok, done.

Thank you. Just saw the notification.

>
>> This "/sys/devices" directory, is that a special filesystem on linux ?
>> Or some other platform ?
>
> Yes, that's a special file system under Linux. It provides direct
> hardware access via file I/O (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysfs). It
> also uses a lot of linking inside between drivers, devices, etc. So my
> suspicion is that you get into an endless loop while following some of
> these links.

>
>> only the top 4 changes were made after 1.16 (Feb 11, 2014) was released.
>> Right now I suspect the top-most, last change, because it is the only
>> one directly reworking "find" a bit.
>
> If you want me to do some trials perhaps with debug output then please
> let me know.

Will do. I will try at home first, where I have a fairly well patched
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Just checked via remote login, and it has the
/sys/devices tree. I should have a decent chance at reproducing this
locally/myself.

I will now put your information into the ticket, to answer my question there.


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