reassign 313028 pbuilder,findutils # temporarily co-assigned to push it on my radar thanks On 2005-06-12 Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm... This is a question to findutils maintainer.
> I know I can fix the problem with the following patch,
> > - find "$1" \( \! -type d \) -a -xdev -print0 |xargs -0 rm -f
> > + find "$1" -xdev \( \! -type d \) -a -print0 | xargs -0 -n 10 rm -f
> But why does xargs bail out with this without it? :
> > xargs: rm: Argument list too long
> Is this intentional?
[...]
No, it is not.
I am not yet awake enough to decipher whether
a) xargs passes more than ARG_MAX - (size of environment) arguments to
rm
or
b) whether rm fails to run with ARG_MAX arguments.
Either would be an rc-bug in the respective programs.
I guess this was triggered by:
- xargs now uses 128Kb instead of 20Kb of command line by default, as
ARG_MAX is 131072 on linux this Closes: #261598.
I'll look at this later, after breakfast.
cu andreas
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