Re: [PATCH] rm, du, chmod, chown, chgrp: use much less memory for large directories

[Jim Meyering]

Erik Auerswald wrote:
> there is a typo in the NEWS entry:
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 06:24:46PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> [...]
>> +  fts-using tools (rm, du, chmod, chgrp, chown, chcon) no longer use memory
>> +  proportional to the number of entries in each directory they process.
>> +  Before, rm -rf 4-million-entry-directory would consume about 1GiB of 
>> memory.
>> +  Now, it uses less than 30GB, no matter how many entries there are.

Thanks!
I've fixed it with this:

>From 423b079f5324b9097d487e752b71a8399b970ba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Auerswald <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:12:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: correct typo in yesterday's NEWS entry: 30GB -> 30MB

* NEWS: s/30GB/30MB/
---
 NEWS |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b356a03..569c33b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-
   fts-using tools (rm, du, chmod, chgrp, chown, chcon) no longer use memory
   proportional to the number of entries in each directory they process.
   Before, rm -rf 4-million-entry-directory would consume about 1GiB of memory.
-  Now, it uses less than 30GB, no matter how many entries there are.
+  Now, it uses less than 30MB, no matter how many entries there are.
   [this bug was inherent in the use of fts: thus, for rm the bug was
   introduced in coreutils-8.0.  The prior implementation of rm did not use
   as much memory.  du, chmod, chgrp and chown started using fts in 6.0.
--
1.7.6.857.gf34cf