Hey there,You can work around it many ways, using the options provided for xargs or using ls directly being among them.
I've seen the changes you made in commit b6a2fea39318 and I guess they
might be responsible for my xargs breakage...
In the kernel source tree, if I run a stupid find | xargs ls, I now get
this:
xargs: ls: Argument list too long
Which is kind of annoying but I can work around it though make distclean in
my kernel tree dies with the same symptom (aka -E2BIG).
I run a vanilla 2.6.23-rc9 (Linux version 2.6.23-rc9 (mchouque@shookaylt)
(gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)) #1 Tue Oct 2 08:13:47 EDT
2007) on FC7...
Let me know if I can do anything. I'm going to try to bisect the problem
after I recompile the kernel without this patch...
Best,
Mathieu
torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Linus Torvalds) writes:I said I was hoping that -rc8 was the last -rc, and I hate doing this, but we've had more changes since -rc8 than we had in -rc8. And while most of them are pretty trivial, I really couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and take the risk of some really stupid brown-paper-bag thing.
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