From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 1 8:28:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A7637B415 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 08:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626C743E09 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 08:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g61FSju5042926; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:28:45 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020701150802.E79950@k7.mavetju> References: <20020630233703.GA52780@gits.dyndns.org> <20020701150802.E79950@k7.mavetju> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:28:44 -0400 To: Edwin Groothuis , Cyrille Lefevre From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: xargs broken Cc: freebsd stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 3:08 PM +1000 7/1/02, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > # xargs ls -d < /tmp/p >> xargs: ls: Argument list too long > >You mean the warning "Argument list too long" ? >It's coming from your shell. Well, that's true, but it's coming from the shell because xargs built a command that was too long... :-) tjr has already found a bug in xargs which seems to be the culprit for this problem. The change is in -current, and will show up in -stable in another day or two. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message