Hello Justin, On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:50:17PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > sudo: doesn't accept more than 16347 arguments > http://bugs.debian.org/413425 > > Isn't this still just the environment limit of execve? Other commands > have the same limit without xargs.
I don't think so: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate usr |wc -l 301961 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate usr |xargs echo |wc -l 123 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate usr |xargs sudo echo |wc -l sudo: unable to execute /bin/echo: Argument list too long 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate usr |xargs -s 32768 sudo echo |wc -l 481 If it had been an execve limit, echo would have also been affected. > xargs should be able to handle sudo with some -s argument. Yes, thanks for the tip! > Should this be considered a request for xargs to work around whatever > causes it to fail to do what's intended when sudo is involved? This is not what I intended to achieve. I wanted that sudo worked with the recent findutils versions OOTB. With -s, we can set the severity of this bug to wishlist. I understand that if a program doesn't support an unlimited number of arguments (so that sizeof int, the kernel, and perhaps the libc are the only limitation), then setting any defaults is a horse race with other tools. If upstream says they won't do that, we'd just tag the bug as wontfix and close it, but I don't think it makes sense to work around every program in xargs. With kind regards, -- Baurzhan Ismagulov http://www.kz-easy.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
