Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:02:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: argument list too long Message-ID: <20080227170232.GK3328@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20080227175527.E3645@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20080227100132.G1831@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <47C52A64.5000701@locolomo.org> <20080227111551.GA2403@kobe.laptop> <20080227124822.C2519@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080227152937.GJ3328@dan.emsphone.com> <20080227175527.E3645@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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