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and subject line Re: Bug#406796: xargs: should use safe defaults qua
length/size of argument list
has caused the Debian Bug report #406796,
regarding xargs: should use safe defaults qua length/size of argument list
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Package: findutils
mailman was using the following snippet of code:
find /var/lib/mailman/ -type d -print0 | xargs -r -0 chmod g+s
but this led, for at least one user, to a failure with the error
message:
xargs: chmod: Argument list too long
(see http://bugs.debian.org/366102). We have worked around this by
using the somewhat slower
find /var/lib/mailman/ -type d -exec chmod g+s \{\} \;
so it is not blocking to us, but still, I think that xargs should use
safe defaults for -s and -n. In other words, it should "just work"™,
using xargs should automatically protect you against too long argument
lists being used. "Safe" as in ask the kernel what the maximum is and
use that. Or something like that.
The user in question was using etch in may 2006, so presumably the
version of findutils in etch around that time.
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Lionel
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Version: 4.6.0-1
On 2007-01-14 Lionel Elie Mamane <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> On 2007-01-14 Lionel Elie Mamane <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
>>> xargs: chmod: Argument list too long
>> there used to be a bug in xargs which could have caused this error.
[...]
> This being said, it is true I come with very little information to
> actually reproduce and fix what I presume to be another bug :-(
Given that no reproducer has come up I am marking this as closed.
cu Andreas
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