Hi,
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 05:36 +0100, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Friday 25 January 2008, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Sylvain Gargasson wrote:
> > > > > sho-lnx-001:~ # rsync -av --progress --stats /mnt/source/*
> > > > > /mnt/destination/
> > > > >
> > > > > -bash: /usr/bin/rsync: Argument list too long
> > > >
> > > > It is just a bash isssue.
> > >
> > > bash is just passing the error up from the OS
> >
> > Wrong. Bash's command parameter buffer is too small.
>
> No, the error is definitely coming from the OS. I ran the following
> test on my Linux machine:
>
> strace -f -o echo.strace bash -c '/bin/echo {1..1000000}' >/dev/null
>
> The output is here:
>
> http://mattmccutchen.net/private/echo.strace
>
> Note the execve system call near the end that fails with E2BIG.
20250 write(2, "bash: /bin/echo: Argument list t"..., 40) = 40
20250 exit_group(126) = ?
This case is as clear as possible. Just leave the * and bash is out of
business.
Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])--
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