Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:34:58 +0100 | Subject | Re: xargs environment overflow: patch | From | Andreas Schwab <> |
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Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> writes:
|> Resend, never saw the original on l-k. |> |> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 07:03:04 +0300 (MSK), |> "Khimenko Victor" <khim@sch57.msk.ru> wrote: |> >In <m12Tvjn-0006hEC@grumbeer.inka.de> Hans-Joachim Baader (hans@grumbeer.inka.de) wrote: |> >> I tried to compile it with everything enabled (as module if possible) |> >> and got the following error: |> > |> >> find . -name '*.[oas]' -type f -print | grep -v lxdialog/ | xargs rm -f |> >> xargs: environment is too large for exec |> >> make: *** [clean] Error 1 |> > |> >> What's that? I never saw that before ;-) |> > |> >Linux can not execute program with command line longer then 128KiB. It's |> >what happened. It was discussed recently. Looks like noone (apart of me and |> >Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> :-) is interested in fixing that. |> >Jamie promised to cook up better patch then mine but so far I've not seen |> >anything ... |> |> The command line is not the problem, it is the environment space that |> is too big. This patch fixes the problem. I originally sent it in |> against 2.3.40 and got no response. Maybe it will get into 2.3.52.
That's better be fixed in xargs, which is trivial.
Andreas.
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