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and subject line Bug#413425: this bug/413425: sudo: doesn't accept more than
16347 arguments
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Package: sudo
Version: 1.6.8p12-4
Severity: normal
Hello Bdale,
To reproduce:
i=0; while [ $i -lt 16348 ]; do echo axc; i=$((i+1)); done |xargs sudo ls
Tested with findutils 4.2.28-2. "xargs ls" does work.
Thanks in advance,
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Baurzhan Ismagulov
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpam-modules 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
pi libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
sudo recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:26:18AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > sudo: doesn't accept more than 16347 arguments
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/413425
> I think I know why.
>
> sudo sets SUDO_COMMAND to the command it's executing.
Aha!
> I don't think any code change is necessary; it's probably best to use
> sudo xargs instead of xargs sudo.
Ok, I think I can live with this workaround.
With kind regards,
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Baurzhan Ismagulov
http://www.kz-easy.com/
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