[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54202] build fails with Bad file descriptor with perl 5.28.0 installed

[Dan Sebald]

Follow-up Comment #15, bug #54202 (project octave):

It could also be an incidental change.  Just speculating, but it might be that
Perl never set any limit on the argument list.  Rather that limit could be
determined by the underlying OS methods it is using.  That is, if it is using
unlinkat(), renameat() and fchmodat() in some fundamentally different way than
in the past, it could be that's where the 1019 file limit is.  Could the Perl
script be changed so that it is broken into four regions with regular
expression substitution in the file name?  E.g.,


doc/interpreter/octave.html/[A-K]*
doc/interpreter/octave.html/[L-a]*
doc/interpreter/octave.html/[b-k]*
doc/interpreter/octave.html/[l-z]*
doc/interpreter/octave.html/[^A-z]*


Or perhaps write the in-place edit line as a loop through all files in groups
indexed by the first letter somehow.

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