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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Markus Klinik <markus.klinik@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-cvsexportcommit fails for huge commits
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:17:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071212161701.GA18930@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712120753120.25032@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:02:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Jeff King wrote:
> >  
> > +sub xargs_safe_pipe_capture {
> > +	my $MAX_ARG_LENGTH = 1024;
> 
> Well, that's a bit extreme. Make it 16kB or something. Anything should be 
> able to handle that.

Obviously it should be tweaked, and I just chose an absurdly low value.
However, "xargs --show-limit" claims that the POSIX minimum is 2048,
less the size of the environment. I have no idea what the original
problem reporter's platform is, or what sort of environment size is sane
there.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-12 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-11 20:04 git-cvsexportcommit fails for huge commits Markus Klinik
2007-12-12  8:31 ` Jeff King
2007-12-12  9:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-12  9:25     ` Jeff King
2007-12-14  3:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14  4:45         ` Jeff King
2007-12-14  9:15           ` Jeff King
2007-12-14 13:47             ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-12-15 10:09               ` Jeff King
2007-12-12 16:02   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-12 16:17     ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-12-12 19:58   ` Martin Langhoff
2007-12-13  4:17     ` Jeff King
2007-12-13  8:39       ` Markus Klinik
2007-12-13  9:01         ` Jeff King

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