From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 30 17:14:57 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 E378E37B400 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 17:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E09843E09 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 17:14:52 -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 g610Eo1i184848; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:14:50 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020630233703.GA52780@gits.dyndns.org> References: <20020630233703.GA52780@gits.dyndns.org> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:14:49 -0400 To: Cyrille Lefevre , freebsd stable From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: xargs broken 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 1:37 AM +0200 7/1/02, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: ># cd /usr ># xargs ls -d < /tmp/p >xargs: ls: Argument list too long There was someone who reported something similar a few weeks ago, I think it was, and he later reported that the problem went away when he switched shells. This seemed rather odd to me, because I would not expect the shell to matter, but I couldn't reproduce the problem at the time. (not that I tried very hard after he reported that it was working for him). I let the messages about that sit in my mailbox until sometime last week, when I decided I could delete them because no one else had reported the problem... -- 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