Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 05:40:09 GMT From: abc@anchorageinternet.org To: "Send-PR" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> Subject: misc/44195: globbing/argument limits Message-ID: <200210180540.g9I5e9U9038266@en26.groggy.anc.acsalaska.net>
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>Number: 44195
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: globbing/argument limits
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Oct 17 22:50:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Joe Public
>Release: i386 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE
>Organization:
no org
>Environment:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Description:
argument limits painful to users in days of 100GB drives.
>How-To-Repeat:
try a command and give it a few thousand arguments,
like in file modifying command a folder with 6000 files.
find(1) is too slow, and combining it with xargs is a kludge.
there has to be a better solution than imposing these
arbitrary limits on arguments. user limits in /etc/login.conf,
or something like that, should be used to limit use of
utilities, not compiled-in defines.
>Fix:
dunno.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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