[BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@free.fr>]

         Hey there,

I've seen the changes you made in commit b6a2fea39318 and I guess they
might be responsible for my xargs breakage...

In the kernel source tree, if I run a stupid find | xargs ls, I now get
this:
xargs: ls: Argument list too long

Which is kind of annoying but I can work around it though make distclean in
my kernel tree dies with the same symptom (aka -E2BIG).

I run a vanilla 2.6.23-rc9 (Linux version 2.6.23-rc9 (mchouque@shookaylt)
(gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)) #1 Tue Oct 2 08:13:47 EDT
2007) on FC7...

Let me know if I can do anything.  I'm going to try to bisect the problem
after I recompile the kernel without this patch...

Best,
Mathieu

torvalds@linux-foundation.org (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> I said I was hoping that -rc8 was the last -rc, and I hate doing this, but 
> we've had more changes since -rc8 than we had in -rc8. And while most of 
> them are pretty trivial, I really couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and 
> take the risk of some really stupid brown-paper-bag thing.
> [...]

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Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer                           mchouque@free.fr
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