From: "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Bug#479764: shell builtin mv fails to move files across devices
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 00:06:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <237967ef0805071506h4cff17a4id68641b6bd5f0ce3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080507213034.GL13554@prunille.vinc17.org>
2008/5/7 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>:
> On 2008-05-06 13:55:23 -0700, Phil Pennock wrote:
> > Most people shouldn't need to use it.
>
> I use it *by default* just because of the Linux kernel bug^Wlimitation
> concerning the argument list (I often exceed it). But perhaps I should
> write my own shell function as a wrapper to coreutils and use xargs or
> zargs when necessary.
This bug^Wlimitation has been fixed^Wraised in linux 2.6.23 from some
hundred kilobytes to 1/4 of ulimit -s, so by default 2MB but you can
make it limited only by available ram if you want.
--
Mikael Magnusson
ps I don't know how much of the cc i'm supposed to keep, but this is
sort of off topic to the debian bug anyway so i guess it doesn't
really matter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-07 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20080506144208.GA15225@lapse.madduck.net>
2008-05-06 15:03 ` Clint Adams
2008-05-06 15:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-05-06 16:55 ` martin f krafft
2008-05-06 20:52 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-06 20:55 ` Phil Pennock
2008-05-07 21:30 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-05-07 21:47 ` Phil Pennock
2008-05-07 22:50 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-05-07 23:03 ` martin f krafft
2008-05-08 3:23 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-05-08 9:34 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-05-07 22:06 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2008-05-07 22:57 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-05-06 18:52 ` Stephane Chazelas
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