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bug#7036: ls, mv, etc on LINUX
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Elisabet Wahlgren |
Subject: |
bug#7036: ls, mv, etc on LINUX |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:57:45 +0200 |
Thank you very much for your prompt answer and very valuable info! I did try to
surf the web for info before asking you, but I did not find your excellent FAQ
link though.
My company's Linux has an ARG_MAX value of 128K, as compared to the (probable -
I never had a reason to check it then) 2M limit for the Solaris OS we used to
work with - seems a number of the commercial Unix variants noticed the
advantage of a larger limit. The Solaris value seemed to be enough for what I
was doing then and would most probably be enough for what I am doing now.
Hopefully, our next Linux Service Pack might involve a recompiled kernel with
an increased value, for simplicity and to avoid changing too much in our build
environment etc. I'll talk to our Linux team.
Thanks again,
Regards,
Elisabet Wahlgren
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Blake [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: den 15 september 2010 18:51
To: Elisabet Wahlgren
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: bug#7036: ls, mv, etc on LINUX
On 09/15/2010 09:02 AM, Elisabet Wahlgren wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Greatly surprised (and not very happy) that my attempts to list or move files
> satisfying a file name pattern (like ls *.tgz for example) fail miserably on
> my linux machine, when the number of files satisfying the pattern is large.
> Error message example: "/bin/mv: Argument list too long". Is this a bug or a
> feature, would you know?
Feature of your OS, and a FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument-list-too-long
>
> I used to work with a Unix version (Solaris) quite a number of years
> (decades) and cannot remember having seen this limitation before.
Solaris has the same problem - it's just that you never presented it with
enough data to reach the limit.
--
Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
- bug#7036: ls, mv, etc on LINUX, Elisabet Wahlgren, 2010/09/15
- bug#7036: ls, mv, etc on LINUX, Bob Proulx, 2010/09/15
- bug#7036: ls, mv, etc on LINUX, Eric Blake, 2010/09/15
- bug#7036: ls, mv, etc on LINUX,
Elisabet Wahlgren <=