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Message-ID: <4707C795.7030507@tmr.com> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:36:21 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com> To: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@...e.fr> 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 Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > 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). > You can work around it many ways, using the options provided for xargs or using ls directly being among them. find . -ls I don't see it with 2.6.23-rc8-git3 so it may be related to xargs version as well, I have 4.2.27 in FC6. > 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. >> [...] > -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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