Re: xargs: exec's with too many arguments

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2005-11-22 Tim Waugh <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:30:50AM +0000, James Youngman wrote:

> > Thanks for discovering and fixing the bug.

> With 4.2.26 I'm finding a test suite failure with the new tests on
> x86_64:
[...]

Hello,
Similar experience on Debian's buildds:
alpha and ia64
Running 
/build/buildd/findutils-4.2.26/xargs/testsuite/xargs.posix/arg_max_32bit_linux_bug.exp
 ...
FAIL: arg_max_32bit_linux_bug, wrong stdout output: xargs.out 
/build/buildd/findutils-4.2.26/xargs/testsuite/xargs.posix/arg_max_32bit_linux_bug.xo
 differ: char 32764, line 1
child process exited abnormally
Running 
/build/buildd/findutils-4.2.26/xargs/testsuite/xargs.posix/arg_max_64bit_linux_bug.exp
 ...
FAIL: arg_max_64bit_linux_bug, wrong stdout output: xargs.out 
/build/buildd/findutils-4.2.26/xargs/testsuite/xargs.posix/arg_max_64bit_linux_bug.xo
 differ: char 32764, line 1
child process exited abnormally

And hppa show brokenness:
Running 
/build/buildd/findutils-4.2.26/xargs/testsuite/xargs.posix/arg_max_32bit_linux_bug.exp
 ...
FAIL: arg_max_32bit_linux_bug, unexpected failure, child process exited 
abnormally, /build/buildd/findutils-4.2.26/xargs/testsuite/../xargs: echo: 
Argument list too long

which I reproduce:
address@hidden:/tmp/findutils-4.2.26/xargs/testsuite/xargs.posix$
../../xargs echo < arg_max_32bit_linux_bug.xo
../../xargs: echo: Argument list too long
              cu andreas
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