Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:01:08 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: Putinas Piliponis <Putinas.Piliponis@hansa.lt> Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased? Message-ID: <200409250101.25143.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <359635024.20040924165946@andric.com> References: <217202CB5FF8AE439E263CE3D48ECB50686C37@honda.int.hansa.lt> <200409242315.31325.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <359635024.20040924165946@andric.com>
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--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--
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