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Re: xargs: argument list too long - new problem with v.4.2.25
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:26:18 +0000
- Subject: Re: xargs: argument list too long - new problem with v.4.2.25
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:46:05AM +0100, fergus wrote:
> >Just updated xargs from v.4.2.11-cvs to v.4.2.25 with installation of latest
> >findutils and I now find that
> > cat filelist | xargs md5sum
> >where filelist is a mere 1723 items long, now fails with
> > xargs: md5sum: Argument list too long
> I used to compile findutils with -DARG_MAX=150000 on the gcc command
> line to work around this problem. Undoubtedly there is a better way to
> do this, but maybe this is a hint as to what's wrong.
I'll take a look at it. It may be that configure was picking up an over-large
limit, since I mount my /bin as -X.
--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer
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