Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761924AbXJFRbS (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:31:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756480AbXJFRbF (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:31:05 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:40879 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757474AbXJFRbD (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:31:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4707C795.7030507@tmr.com> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:36:21 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel To: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer CC: Ollie Wild , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1773 Lines: 48 Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > Hey there, > > I've seen the changes you made in commit b6a2fea39318 and I guess they > might be responsible for my xargs breakage... > > In the kernel source tree, if I run a stupid find | xargs ls, I now get > this: > xargs: ls: Argument list too long > > Which is kind of annoying but I can work around it though make distclean in > my kernel tree dies with the same symptom (aka -E2BIG). > You can work around it many ways, using the options provided for xargs or using ls directly being among them. find . -ls I don't see it with 2.6.23-rc8-git3 so it may be related to xargs version as well, I have 4.2.27 in FC6. > I run a vanilla 2.6.23-rc9 (Linux version 2.6.23-rc9 (mchouque@shookaylt) > (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)) #1 Tue Oct 2 08:13:47 EDT > 2007) on FC7... > > Let me know if I can do anything. I'm going to try to bisect the problem > after I recompile the kernel without this patch... > > Best, > Mathieu > > torvalds@linux-foundation.org (Linus Torvalds) writes: >> I said I was hoping that -rc8 was the last -rc, and I hate doing this, but >> we've had more changes since -rc8 than we had in -rc8. And while most of >> them are pretty trivial, I really couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and >> take the risk of some really stupid brown-paper-bag thing. >> [...] > -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - 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/