: #!/bin/sh
: while :; do mkdir foo; cd foo; done
: create a full pathname that exceed a page memory (do_getname() return
: -ENAMETOOLONG), so can' t be referenced in any way and so can' t be
: deleted from rm -r etc...
: PS. How can force the deleting of a tree created without the patch?
An old and well-known problem.
The tree can be deleted by deltree (ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/linux/misc).
Maybe recent GNU versions of rm will do as well.