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SubjectRe: xargs environment overflow: patch
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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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