Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261202AbVDJAkZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 20:40:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261282AbVDJAkY (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 20:40:24 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:11436 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261202AbVDJAkU (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 20:40:20 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:39:44 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Ralph Corderoy Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, pasky@ucw.cz, rddunlap@osdl.org, ross@jose.lug.udel.edu, mingo@elte.hu, davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: more git updates.. Message-Id: <20050409173944.247252eb.pj@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200504092321.j39NLk003976@blake.inputplus.co.uk> References: <200504092321.j39NLk003976@blake.inputplus.co.uk> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 19 Ralph wrote: > Watch out for when xargs invokes do_something more than once and the `<' > is parsed by a different one than the `>'. It will take a pretty long list to do that. It seems that GNU xargs on top of a Linux kernel has a 128 KByte ARG_MAX. In the old days, with 4 KByte ARG_MAX limits, this would have bitten us pretty quickly. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/