Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:29:24 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sript (Perl) test code needed (was: How to build JDK15 on AMD64 with FreeBSD?) Message-ID: <20050630102924.GA71895@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050629221047.GC20836@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <42BC8310.9040501@cse.unl.edu> <20050626042355.GA41119@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20050629221047.GC20836@dragon.NUXI.org>
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# obrien@freebsd.org / 2005-06-29 15:10:47 -0700:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 10:23:56PM -0600, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > and follow the instructions. There is one caveat on amd64 -- one of the
> > build commands will fail strangely (this is a bug in the Linux emulation
> > on amd64 as far as I can determine).
>
> I know this should be trivial to do in perl and maybe someone here has the
> time to hack it up. I want a small test script (actually some other
> scripting language than perl preferred).
>
> The script should run the following commands until an error is returned:
>
> ls
> ls .
> ls ./
> ls ./.
> ls ././
> ls ././.
> ls ./././
> etc...
>
> and when the error occurs print out the length of the command line.
> I want to get the bottom of the "command too long" issue that causes too
> much trouble deploying Java on FreeBSD/AMD64.
This prints the length of the argument (add 3 for "ls "), works in
zsh:
setopt ksh_arrays
p=; i=0; c=(. /);
while ls $p; do
p=$p${c[i++ % 2]};
done >/dev/null 2>&1;
echo $i ${#p}
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