[Toybox] [landley/toybox] xargs: exec ... Argument list too long (#40)

enh enh at google.com
Mon Sep 25 10:09:32 PDT 2017


i did find some time (no pun intended) to look at the equivalent bug
in find on friday, but spent it all on a couple of ratholes i
discovered trying to set up a test :-(

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> On 09/21/2017 10:40 AM, enh wrote:
>> i should probably have also said (since it was contentious before)
>> that i went with the -2048 not because i have a use for it, but
>> because it's POSIX, it's what all existing implementations do, it's
>> trivial, and it's at least a year (or "never") until i can update the
>> toybox on a device if we do ever find someone relying on this safety
>> margin.
>>
>> (the guy who owns the NDK and has to regularly test on ancient devices
>> may thank me for this some day.)
>
> Sorry, my turn to be sick, but I should be able to catch up this weekend...
>
> Rob



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