D Antryg M Revok wrote: > you /probably/ don't care, since it's been "good enough" for the GNU > tradition ( to be arbitrary and broken ) for years, but incompetence is > incompentence. > > If I rig my work to abuse all into obedience, everyone has the right to > call-me on it, and some programmers have similar integrity-values.
Note that the tone of your message is not conducive to starting a productive conversation. In the future you would be well advised to remember the old saying, "You catch more flies with honey than vineger." Please avoid being so abusive in the future. It is not appreciated. Second, the ARG_MAX limit is a kernel limitation. This has nothing to do with findutils nor other userland commands. Look for "Argument list too long" in this FAQ for more information. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ Perhaps you should consider using a kernel without an ARG_MAX limitation. If I recall correctly Hurd, the GNU kernel, does not suffer from an arbitrary ARG_MAX limitation. Third, is there a bug report in your message? I read the subject of your message: Subject: bug in FIND: argument list too damn long using -exec chmod 440 {} + But that should not suffer from an argument list too long problem. The command is being executed one at a time for every matching file. Therefore I can't guess as to what problem you are really having. By your own judgement we are incompetent and therefore you being the only one competent one need help us to guess what what you are griping about. Give us an example that we can reproduce where find is producing an error when it shouldn't. This reference might help you generate a better bug report in the future. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html And finally as long as I have your attention your signature is way too long. Sixteen lines! Wow. It is polite to limit your signature size to a few lines and no more. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
