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From: | ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake) |
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Subject: | Re: xargs: argument list too long - new problem with v.4.2.25 |
Date: | Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:26:18 +0000 |
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> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:46:05AM +0100, fergus wrote: > >Just updated xargs from v.4.2.11-cvs to v.4.2.25 with installation of latest > >findutils and I now find that > > cat filelist | xargs md5sum > >where filelist is a mere 1723 items long, now fails with > > xargs: md5sum: Argument list too long > I used to compile findutils with -DARG_MAX=150000 on the gcc command > line to work around this problem. Undoubtedly there is a better way to > do this, but maybe this is a hint as to what's wrong. I'll take a look at it. It may be that configure was picking up an over-large limit, since I mount my /bin as -X. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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