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Subject: misc/44195: globbing/argument limits
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>Number:         44195
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       globbing/argument limits
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 17 22:50:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joe Public
>Release:        i386 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE
>Organization:
no org
>Environment:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Description:
argument limits painful to users in days of 100GB drives.
>How-To-Repeat:
try a command and give it a few thousand arguments,
                like in file modifying command a folder with 6000 files.
                find(1) is too slow, and combining it with xargs is a kludge.
                there has to be a better solution than imposing these
                arbitrary limits on arguments.  user limits in /etc/login.conf,
                or something like that, should be used to limit use of
                utilities, not compiled-in defines.
>Fix:
dunno.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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