From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 15:32:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E415016A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:32:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF26C43D41 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:32:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8OFVQ5j051711; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:01:27 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Dimitry Andric Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:01:08 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <217202CB5FF8AE439E263CE3D48ECB50686C37@honda.int.hansa.lt> <200409242315.31325.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <359635024.20040924165946@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <359635024.20040924165946@andric.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7308067.fY9gfWRpbW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409250101.25143.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Garance A Drosihn cc: Putinas Piliponis Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:32:35 -0000 --nextPart7308067.fY9gfWRpbW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:29, Dimitry Andric wrote: > That shouldn't matter, since the -0 argument to xargs tells it to > expect NUL characters *instead* of spaces or newlines. As long as NUL > characters aren't allowed in filenames, it should work. :) I was commenting on the pipe to a read inside a while loop (which was neat = :) > Note that there's still a chance that the program actually called by > xargs doesn't handle newlines or other weird characters in filenames > properly, though... Yeah.. unlikely unless it's a shell script which does strange things tho. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart7308067.fY9gfWRpbW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBVD3N5ZPcIHs/zowRAraZAJ9Bgjf7x1mN6KczvQz1te4ZFs3spQCfWpA6 reJc+Tvz+yDDyxE6bLHtIj0= =q6Vc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7308067.fY9gfWRpbW--