#9266: getDirectoryContents blow its stack in a huge directory -------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Reporter: joeyhess | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: libraries/directory | Version: 7.8.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Linux Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: Difficulty: Easy (less than 1 hour) | None/Unknown Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: -------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Once a directory has around 2 million files in it, a lack of an accumulator in getDirectoryContents (unix version only; windows already has an acc) causes it to blow the stack: {{{ joey@darkstar:‾/src/git-annex>cat test.hs import System.Directory main = do l <- getDirectoryContents "/tmp/big" print (null l) joey@darkstar:‾/src/git-annex>ghc --make -O2 test [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( test.hs, test.o ) Linking test ... joey@darkstar:‾/src/git-annex>./test Stack space overflow: current size 8388608 bytes. Use `+RTS -Ksize -RTS' to increase it. }}} I suggest the attached patch. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9266 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler