Nasty MC bugs still not fixed

[Samium Gromoff]

> Hello!
> 
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> 
> >        Hello Pavel, its about mc
> 
> Please write to the list if it's about MC.
> 
> >     1) sometimes mc fails to change to _existing_ directories, and complains
> >     2) sometimes it just reflect that it has changed to the dir, by updating the
> >   panels, but dont actually do the dirchange, and when one tries to type in
> >   some command it tells what "cant exec command - shell is active"
> >   or smth like that. I suppose chdir call stalls of smth like that.
> >     3) while copying large amount of files (>4GB), the size progress
> >   bar everytimes == 0%
> 
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way, by Eric Raymond and Rick Moen:
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> 
> How to Report Bugs Effectively, by Simon Tatham:
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
  I`m sorry, but these bugs are there already ~20 versions, or likely more...
 (and pretty much likely more)
> 
> >     4) it _is_ the time to use madvise(VM_SEQ_READ) on large files.
> >   that i suppose _will_ drmatically increase large file transfer speed.
> >   actually i`d like to see tunable the value from which the file io will
> >   be madvised to be streaming...
> >
> >   the algo is next: 1. mmap file 2. madvise the memregion 3. do the io
> >
> >   hmm... thats all i can remeber for the moment...
    5) Search is b0rken:
        if you are grepping in the directory for "foo" you can fail, even
  if files containing "foo" exists. Even more if foo is expected to be 
  surrounded by spaces like that " foo ", and you will reflect this,
  entries will be found, while still failing on "foo".
    This bug i hate most, since i have to use grep to be sure.
> 
> Not enough details:
> 
> 1) Which OS'es are affected?
 Linux
> 2) Which operations are affected?
 Usual operation. All is described above.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
> 
> 
Cheers,
 Sam