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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: xargs: argument list too long - new problem with v.4.2.25
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:26:18 +0000
Message-Id: <090520051726.29617.431C7FBA00076694000073B122070009530A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>

> 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


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