Hi Justin,
Thank your for your answer!
I could assign the bug to the kernel-package. However I actually do not want
to waste your time.
I talked to my colleagues, several of them were experiencing the same
problem. It is clear that simply raising the limit for the argument list is
only a short term solution. But maybe it would be good to come up with a
more flexible approach.
Regards,
Piet
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> Hi,
>
> You recently submitted a bug on the Debian BTS bugs.debian.org.
>
> Firstly, your report included "Package: -", which means that your bug
> was assigned to no package, and is unlikely to be fixed as such.
>
> Also, the maximal length of the argument list is an arbitrary (large)
> value. This has been previously reported as a bug in bash [0], but
> that assignment doesn't really make sense, since it is not the fault
> of bash. In fact, it is deliberate.
>
> You can work around the maximal limit as described in that report,
> using xargs. This works since stdin is has no size limit. You can
> also work around it more simply by doing something like
>
> mv foo/[a-n]* .
> mv foo/[o-z]* .
> mv foo/* .
>
> I'm closing this bug since the only other alternative is to reassign
> it to a real package, and there is no package to which I can correctly
> reassign it. If you feel that this explanation is inadequate, you can
> reopen the bug [1], but you will also have to reassign it to a real
> package.
>
> Justin
>
> References
>
> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271588&archive=yes
> [1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
>
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