Re: find: memory exhausted

[Angel Tsankov]

James Youngman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Angel Tsankov
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> What could be the reason to get a 'memory exhausted' error when
>> running find
>> 4.2.23 from a makefile such as this one:
>>
>> all:
>> find . -exec true \;
>
> It's possible that the version of Make you are using exports a large
> number of environment variables, and this will affect the number and
> size of command-line arguments that find can issue to execve().
> However, it seems to me that this is not precisely the problem, since
> this command line does not include {}.
>
>>
>> It might be worthwhile to note that this command works when run from
>> a shell or whithout '-exec true\;' Also, the directory where the
>> command is executed contains jsut a few files and no subdirectories.
>
> Hmm, thanks for the problem report.    However, before I look into
> this further, please try again with a recent version of findutils (for
> example 4.4.0, which is almost 3 years newer than the version you are
> using) and tell us whether that's still affected.
>
I did not imagine that version 4.2.23 is that old.  With find 4.4.0 I do not 
experience the problem described above.

Angel Tsankov