Re: grep -R hangs when issued upon certain directory

2009-05-09 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Bob Proulx schrieb: > Elmar Stellnberger wrote: >> I am not sure what grep does not like about my home directory, but as >> soon as I issue a "grep -R Testtext *" in my home dir grep will start to >> hang not triggering any further disk access after a short while. > > Bugs in grep should be repo

Re: grep -R hangs when issued upon certain directory

2009-05-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > I am not sure what grep does not like about my home directory, but as > soon as I issue a "grep -R Testtext *" in my home dir grep will start to > hang not triggering any further disk access after a short while. Bugs in grep should be reported to bug-grep. But you ha

grep -R hangs when issued upon certain directory

2009-05-09 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
I am not sure what grep does not like about my home directory, but as soon as I issue a "grep -R Testtext *" in my home dir grep will start to hang not triggering any further disk access after a short while. Tried to get a backtrace by installing coreutils-debuginfo and coreutils-debugsource but