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findutils package

  1. Bug #249937
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 249937

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Well. I've been wrong on this one. I'm afraid that the kernel has nothing to do with this.

The limit for find and xargs is hardcoded in lib/buildcmd.c in bc_use_sensible_arg_max and can be at build time.

Here is the relevant part of the changelog and more details can be found in the README.

2007-07-31 Eric Blake <email address hidden>

 Allow choice of default arg size, Savannah bug #20594.
 * configure.ac (DEFAULT_ARG_SIZE): Check environment for a default
 size override.
 * lib/buildcmd.c (bc_use_sensible_arg_max): Use default size from
 configure, if requested.
 * README (DEFAULT_ARG_SIZE): Mention the ability to tune this at
 configure time.
 * NEWS: Document the change.

I'm marking this report "confirmed" .