On 07/14/2012 05:06 PM, Akim Demaille wrote: > > Le 13 juil. 2012 à 12:19, Stefano Lattarini a écrit : > >> * t/dist-many.sh: New test, try distributing ~ 30 thousands files. >> Currently fails on several systems (e.g., Linux 2.6.30 on i686, >> Solaris 10 on i86pc). >> * t/dist-many2.sh: New test, check that our distribution rules do not >> hit errors due to an exceeded command line length when there are >> many files to distribute; it does so by faking a very low command >> line length limit for 'mkdir' (max 50 arguments) and the shell (max >> 4000 characters). Currently failing. > > Do these figures come from known limitations? > Nope, basically arbitrary. We might tune such tests (dist-many2.sh, dist-clean2.sh ...) later if we want too, after some investigation to determine which is the known lowest command-line length limitation out there (on the systems worth supporting, of course).
Regards, Stefano
