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Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I've seen the changes you made in commit b6a2fea39318 and I guess they
> might be responsible for my xargs breakage...
>
> In the kernel source tree, if I run a stupid find | xargs ls, I now get
> this:
> xargs: ls: Argument list too long
>
> Which is kind of annoying but I can work around it though make distclean in
> my kernel tree dies with the same symptom (aka -E2BIG).
>
You can work around it many ways, using the options provided for xargs
or using ls directly being among them.
find . -ls
I don't see it with 2.6.23-rc8-git3 so it may be related to xargs
version as well, I have 4.2.27 in FC6.
> I run a vanilla 2.6.23-rc9 (Linux version 2.6.23-rc9 (mchouque@shookaylt)
> (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)) #1 Tue Oct 2 08:13:47 EDT
> 2007) on FC7...
>
> Let me know if I can do anything. I'm going to try to bisect the problem
> after I recompile the kernel without this patch...
>
> Best,
> Mathieu
>
> torvalds@linux-foundation.org (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>> I said I was hoping that -rc8 was the last -rc, and I hate doing this, but
>> we've had more changes since -rc8 than we had in -rc8. And while most of
>> them are pretty trivial, I really couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and
>> take the risk of some really stupid brown-paper-bag thing.
>> [...]
>
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