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

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Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2007 23:54:41 +0200
From:	Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@...e.fr>
To:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ollie Wild <aaw@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	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: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:50:00PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 10/04/2007 01:05 PM, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> > In the kernel source tree, if I run a stupid find | xargs ls, I now get
> > this:
> > xargs: ls: Argument list too long
> > 
> 
> Can you strace it to see what syscall is failing?

Sure:
25789 <... execve resumed> )            = -1 E2BIG (Argument list too long)

I'm going to reboot to a kernel that has Linus' printks...

-- 
Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer                           mchouque@...e.fr
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