Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 05:40:09 GMT From: abc@anchorageinternet.org To: "Send-PR" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> Subject: misc/44195: globbing/argument limits Message-ID: <200210180540.g9I5e9U9038266@en26.groggy.anc.acsalaska.net>
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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: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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