argument list too long
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Feb 27 17:02:35 UTC 2008
In the last episode (Feb 27), Wojciech Puchar said:
>>> 2000 to do the rest.
>>
>> That's less than xargs's default of 5000 :) The xargs manpage explains
>> it all.
> with this defaults i've got "argument list too long" because every argument
> is 70-80 bytes by average.
Hm. That shouldn't happen, since xargs also reads kern.argmax and
limits the total argument size to 4096 bytes less than that. If you
can reproduce this with a simple testcase, it should be easy to fix.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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