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[PATCH 4/8] Update xargs error message.
From: |
James Youngman |
Subject: |
[PATCH 4/8] Update xargs error message. |
Date: |
Sun, 5 Jun 2011 01:11:53 +0100 |
* doc/find.texi (Error Messages From xargs): the message "can not
fit single argument within argument list size limit" is now
"argument list too long".
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
doc/find.texi | 11 +++++++++--
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 033e612..8ef6117 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2011-06-05 James Youngman <address@hidden>
+
+ Update xargs error message.
+ * doc/find.texi (Error Messages From xargs): the message "can not
+ fit single argument within argument list size limit" is now
+ "argument list too long".
+
2011-06-04 James Youngman <address@hidden>
Use the gnulib byteswap and uname modules.
diff --git a/doc/find.texi b/doc/find.texi
index 5d9b096..70ff60f 100644
--- a/doc/find.texi
+++ b/doc/find.texi
@@ -5529,15 +5529,22 @@ Please try unsetting some environment variables, or
exiting the
current shell. You can also use @samp{xargs --show-limits} to
understand the relevant sizes.
address@hidden can not fit single argument within argument list size limit
address@hidden argument list too long
You are using the @samp{-I} option and @code{xargs} doesn't have
enough space to build a command line because it has read a really
-large item and it doesn't fit. You can probably work around this
+large item and it doesn't fit. You may be able to work around this
problem with the @samp{-s} option, but the default size is pretty
large. This is a rare situation and is more likely an attempt to test
the limits of @code{xargs}, or break it. Otherwise, you will need to
try to shorten the problematic argument or not use @code{xargs}.
address@hidden argument line too long
+You are using the @samp{-L} or @samp{-l} option and one of the input
+lines is too long. You may be able to work around this problem with
+the @samp{-s} option, but the default size is pretty large. If you
+can modify the your @code{xargs} command not to use @samp{-L} or
address@hidden, that will be more likely to result in success.
+
@item cannot fork
See the description of the similar message for @code{find}.
--
1.7.2.5
- [PATCH 1/8] Add internationalisation support to bigram but not regexprops., James Youngman, 2011/06/04
- [PATCH 6/8] Silence some false positives for sc_prohibit_always_true_header_tests., James Youngman, 2011/06/04
- [PATCH 8/8] Avoid some false positives for the sc_prohibit_doubled_word check., James Youngman, 2011/06/04
- [PATCH 3/8] Use the gnulib byteswap and uname modules., James Youngman, 2011/06/04
- [PATCH 2/8] gnulib already defines O_CLOEXEC., James Youngman, 2011/06/04
- [PATCH 4/8] Update xargs error message.,
James Youngman <=
- [PATCH 5/8] Prefer "cannot" to "can not"., James Youngman, 2011/06/04
- [PATCH 7/8] Include dirent.h uncontintionally (since gnulib provides it)., James Youngman, 2011/06/04