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Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar)
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Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar) |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:04:53 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
* Bob Proulx wrote on Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:56:08PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > AFAIK this limitation has been lifted in Linux 2.6.23. That FAQ could
> > be updated for this.
>
> Do you know which distributions have shipped with this or newer
> kernel? I was holding off mostly because I think it is only
> from-scratch builders that have that newest kernels that will see this
> new behavior.
Mine is from Debian testing or unstable.
> > $ getconf ARG_MAX
> > 131072
>
> I think this is a bug in glibc on kernels without a hard limit.
> (However it may be a lessor of two evils it if avoids breakage of some
> programs that always expect a limit.) I wonder if libc tries to
> dynamically detect this or if there is a hard coded value that needs
> to be updated. Hmm...
Oh, I might not be running the latest glibc. And I don't consider this
a serious bug, either. But it may cause libtool to run slower than
necessary (as it believes getconf).
> > but apparently it doesn't exist any more:
> You say "apparently" but I am sure that it was you posted a note
> elsewhere noting this change in the upstream kernel.
Yep, just checking whether you were paying attention. ;-)
> It is only a matter of time before this propagates. But time is also
> what keeps everything from happening all at once and so we will need
> to wait a bit before this shows up on most machines in the wild. :-)
Sure. But you can also spread the word now, maybe that will cause it to
propagate faster!
Cheers,
Ralf
- Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Browder, Tom, 2008/04/15
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Bob Proulx, 2008/04/15
- RE: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Browder, Tom, 2008/04/15
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/04/15
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Bob Proulx, 2008/04/15
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar),
Ralf Wildenhues <=
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Bob Proulx, 2008/04/15
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Karl Berry, 2008/04/15
- RE: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Browder, Tom, 2008/04/15