Subject: xargs problems
From: [email-masked] (Daniele Mezzetti)

21 Jul 1998 03:30:36 -0700
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When installing Octave w/ Cyg19.1B I have found that the script
install_octave failed because in line 

find $fcnfiledir -type f -print | xargs chmod 0644	

xargs received in input a bit more that 9K of filenames.
any input > of this resulted in 

XARGS provoked a stack error in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0137:bff725c5.

obviously all went right when I changed the line 

find $fcnfiledir -type f -print | xargs --max-args=50 chmod 0644

but isn't it a bug?

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