Re: Do too many files hurt a directory?

From: Charlie Gibbs (cgibbs_at_kltpzyxm.invalid)
Date: 03/29/04

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    In article <Yh59c.24304$tY6.703172@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>
    hukolau@NOSPAM.att.net (Nick Landsberg) writes:

    >Charlie Gibbs wrote:
    >
    >> In article <d229c.23475$tY6.687474@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>
    >> hukolau@NOSPAM.att.net (Nick Landsberg) writes:
    >>
    >[SNIP]
    >
    >Charlie, to change the subject back almost to the
    >original.
    >
    >Now that the current problem is "fixed" ...
    >
    >The process which created all those files is
    >downright dangerous! You would probably be
    >doing your client a favor if you tracked it
    >down and filed a MAJOR trouble report with the
    >vendor. (And charged appropriately for the tracking
    >down, etc.)

    That's easy. I wrote it. :-) It's a sort utility; I still
    don't know how it ran off creating all those files, but this
    problem was just one of many that resulted from the customer
    running our application as root instead of under the proper
    user ID. (All the files belonged to root, but fortunately
    the directory still belonged to the original user so I was
    able to delete them with rm -f.) 

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