Re: Dowload area shows still 4.4.2

2011-12-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/08/2011 07:04 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> 4.4.2 is still the latest stable release. Development versions (4.5.x) >> are available on http://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/. > > Thank you. Then it's okay. > > But ... "alpha"? > Cygwin is at 4.5.9. Yes, that

xargs: errno-buffer read failed in xargs_do_exec

2011-12-09 Thread Bernhard Voelker
The message comes if the parallelism of xargs is increased/decreased several times in a short time. Test case (OpenSuSE 11.4, ext4, xargs from git): mkdir /tmp/test cd /tmp/test dd if=/dev/zero of=1M bs=1M count=1 seq 4000 | ~/git/findutils/inst/bin/xargs -P 2 -n 1 cp 1M & pid=$! sleep 1 while ki