Re: findutils on interix

[Markus Duft]

On 10/22/2010 03:30 PM, Markus Duft wrote:
> Hey :)
> 
[snip]
> It seems that max argument length is too high...
> 
> Now, i'm pretty aware that interix is doing _many_ things wrong, and
> sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) may well return a much too high number, but to
> consistently handle such cases, would it be wise to cap the max argument
> length to a sane value in xargs?

answering my own thread, i came up with the attached patch in the meantime,
which fixes the problem on interix for now. not sure whether this meats the
quality criteria of findutils ;) please tell me, if not.

markus

> 
> Thanks,
> Markus
>

findutils-4.5.9-argmax-interix.patch
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