On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Daniel.
>
> >> I have to admit to having seen no discussion about this
> >> prior to this email. However, one obvious fix presents
> >> itself to my eyes: Insert "--max-lines=1000" between
> >> "xargs" and "rm" in the relevant command line(s).
>
> > Hmm... xargs -s <max rm command-line size> is probably more
> > portable, as --max-lines requires GNU xargs, which makes
> > building Linux on another platform a bit harder (i.e. when
> > 1st porting, or for Mastodon :-)
>
> > Yet another patch (should have looked at the xargs man page
> > before sending the previous patch. Oh well :-)
>
> Unfortunately, that patch also needs patching - the maximum
> command line length is one byte short of 128k if my understanding
> is correct, so that version has an off-by-one error. Just replace
> the 131072 with 131071 instead.
Just do a safe number guaranteed to be non-broken and non-magic, like
10000 or 50000 or so...
Jeff
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