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Re: Automake security problem
- To: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>
- Subject: Re: Automake security problem
- From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br>
- Date: 03 Mar 2000 15:35:11 -0300
- Cc: "'Jim Meyering'" <meyering at ascend dot com>, Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br>, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>, automake at gnu dot org
- References: <B0CAE42C9EE0D311AAAD00500422FC6305381F@iis000.microdata.fr>
On Mar 3, 2000, Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux@microprocess.com> wrote:
>> From: Jim Meyering [mailto:meyering@ascend.com]
>>
>> Your arguments don't hold water.
Indeed :-)
> This problem is NOT with xargs; it's with the generated command line
> (which is usually limited to 10240 characters by the underlying
> system).
Yup
> Hopefully the solution IS in xargs: just use for example "find
> <something> | xargs -n10 <whatever you need to do>"
Yup, or -s10240, which actually limits the size of the command line
xargs runs, without imposing additional overheads. But then, you'd
have to test whether xargs supports `-n' or `-s'.
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