Hey :) I recently updated my findutils builds on interix (work without any patches (except a gnulib patch i already submitted), thanks for the great work ;) ), and stumbled across a small problem:
mduft xargs $ find /usr/ | ./xargs ./xargs: /bin/echo: Cannot allocate memory mduft xargs $ ./xargs --show-limits Your environment variables take up 3119 bytes POSIX upper limit on argument length (this system): 1043409 POSIX smallest allowable upper limit on argument length (all systems): 4096 Maximum length of command we could actually use: 1040290 Size of command buffer we are actually using: 131072 It seems that max argument length is too high... Now, i'm pretty aware that interix is doing _many_ things wrong, and sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) may well return a much too high number, but to consistently handle such cases, would it be wise to cap the max argument length to a sane value in xargs? Thanks, Markus
