Failed to spawn GNU rlog when try look to big directory.

Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert.spam at gmx.net
Fri Jun 6 10:41:13 UTC 2008


Am Freitag, den 06.06.2008, 11:56 +0300 schrieb Kuido Lehtmets:

> All working OK with cvs when dir includes about 2000 and little more
> files. When in dir is 3000 and more files then I have this error:
> Error: Failed to spawn GNU rlog on "/export/cvsroot/source/oradb......
> 
> What I do an how check:
> File prmissions is OK, All working with other dirs.
> I make a copy from one of this big dirs. cvsweb dont working.
> Then I start deleting some files. When  ls -la | wc -l
> shows 2291 all working again, maybe 2500 or something like this is limit.

I guess, this is an ARG_MAX issue ("Argument list too long"). But this
is just a guess. If I'm right: @Jonathan: Can you split the argument
list in such a case?

Regards, Daniel



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