linux-kernel - [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG

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Message-ID: <m3wsu2u7y6.fsf@bigip.mine.nu>
Date:	Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:05:05 +0200
From:	Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@...e.fr>
To:	Ollie Wild <aaw@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES

         Hey there,

I've seen the changes you made in commit b6a2fea39318 and I guess they
might be responsible for my xargs breakage...

In the kernel source tree, if I run a stupid find | xargs ls, I now get
this:
xargs: ls: Argument list too long

Which is kind of annoying but I can work around it though make distclean in
my kernel tree dies with the same symptom (aka -E2BIG).

I run a vanilla 2.6.23-rc9 (Linux version 2.6.23-rc9 (mchouque@...okaylt)
(gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)) #1 Tue Oct 2 08:13:47 EDT
2007) on FC7...

Let me know if I can do anything.  I'm going to try to bisect the problem
after I recompile the kernel without this patch...

Best,
Mathieu

torvalds@...ux-foundation.org (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> I said I was hoping that -rc8 was the last -rc, and I hate doing this, but 
> we've had more changes since -rc8 than we had in -rc8. And while most of 
> them are pretty trivial, I really couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and 
> take the risk of some really stupid brown-paper-bag thing.
> [...]

-- 
Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer                           mchouque@...e.fr
            The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.
	             -- William Shakespeare --
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