From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 30 22: 8:18 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 1633237B400 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:08:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A0343E09 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237322B8D3; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 07:08:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 837A96A711E; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:08:02 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:08:02 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Cyrille Lefevre Cc: freebsd stable Subject: Re: xargs broken Message-ID: <20020701150802.E79950@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Cyrille Lefevre , freebsd stable References: <20020630233703.GA52780@gits.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020630233703.GA52780@gits.dyndns.org>; from cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:37:03AM +0200 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 On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:37:03AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > Hi, > > xargs seems to be broken right now... > could someone reproduce the following sequence ? > > # uname -a > FreeBSD gits 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #15: Sun Jun 23 06:31:23 CEST 2002 root@gits:/disk2/freebsd/src/sys/compile/CUSTOM i386 > # ident /usr/bin/xargs > /usr/bin/xargs: > $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.c,v 1.9.2.3 2002/06/17 04:44:46 jmallett Exp $ > $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/xargs/strnsubst.c,v 1.5.2.1 2002/06/17 04:44:46 jmallett Exp $ > # cd /home/ncvs > # find ports -type d | grep -v Attic | sort -u > /tmp/p > # cd /usr > # 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. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message