Re: Good but ... mk-origtargz Allow more files to be deleted than can fit inside argv (`getconf ARG_MAX`)

2018-01-24 Thread Ximin Luo
Osamu Aoki: > > Maybe before discussing technical solutions, we should know what issues > we are addressing by this modification. Is there a real cases which you > need to have this patch? > I need this for rustc. Try "apt-get source rustc" now and "uscan --verbose", it will fail. I had to

Re: Good but ... mk-origtargz Allow more files to be deleted than can fit inside argv (`getconf ARG_MAX`)

2018-01-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 03:58:11PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:58:53PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > This looks a reasonable patch. But I don't know why you chose > > 16384=0x400 as the max figure. ... (It's ARG_MAX is in BYTEs but ...) > Jan 13 21:39:31

Re: Good but ... mk-origtargz Allow more files to be deleted than can fit inside argv (`getconf ARG_MAX`)

2018-01-23 Thread Ximin Luo
Osamu Aoki: > Hi, > > [..] > > This looks a reasonable patch. But I don't know why you chose > 16384=0x400 as the max figure. > > Following your comment, I tried on my local machine > $ getconf ARG_MAX > 2097152 > > This is bigger than 16384. > > If this is different on different system, why

Re: Good but ... mk-origtargz Allow more files to be deleted than can fit inside argv (`getconf ARG_MAX`)

2018-01-23 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:58:53PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > This looks a reasonable patch. But I don't know why you chose > 16384=0x400 as the max figure. > > Following your comment, I tried on my local machine > $ getconf ARG_MAX > 2097152 > > This is bigger than 16384. > > If this is

Good but ... mk-origtargz Allow more files to be deleted than can fit inside argv (`getconf ARG_MAX`)

2018-01-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 04:23:34PM +, Ximin Luo wrote: > This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. > > infinity0 pushed a commit to branch pu/mk-origtargz-argmax > in repository devscripts. > > commit 3fa9a36bb4f352c07a3537cb597aaf734ce936f1 > Author: Ximin Luo