On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:27:37AM +0100, sean finney wrote: > On Thursday 24 January 2008 11:50:55 pm Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:17:35PM +0000, River Tarnell wrote:
> > > xargs: rm: Argument list too long > > > > > The only way you could get this error message is if the combined number of > > bytes in the environment and argument list exceeded the kernel maximum. > > Per the xargs manpage, by default the arguments are batched in groups of > > 131072 bytes. Do you have an extraordinarily large number of environment > > variables? If so, we might be able to fix this bug by using 'env'; > > otherwise, I can't see any way that this bug would occur with a normal > > kernel. > why not just throw a "-n 200" or something similar to xargs? Sounds reasonable to me, though it does seem to be a workaround for a bug elsewhere. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
