From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26663 invoked from network); 7 May 2008 22:06:34 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.4 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 7 May 2008 22:06:34 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 57806 invoked from network); 7 May 2008 22:06:31 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 7 May 2008 22:06:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 17019 invoked by alias); 7 May 2008 22:06:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 24966 Received: (qmail 17000 invoked from network); 7 May 2008 22:06:27 -0000 Received: from bifrost.dotsrc.org (130.225.254.106) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 7 May 2008 22:06:27 -0000 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.232]) by bifrost.dotsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4F680ED172 for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 00:06:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id g37so515580rvb.21 for ; Wed, 07 May 2008 15:06:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=wxw3fqG20BhQ6JLAmDMeAAPxvQJ4ALQjkUDd4/lAkOI=; b=oP7tjXLQNIWh9HYLhk8gwFs4wPtngW0Yo8NMm1yKVzfQ0s3E4F+v9GkJ3+mKDSac6o0/dP5eOLDdyMXsTevsLhyy9fWKAxPJkce4hzitRl5dHB4j3PlbzUuMXGKMXHF9I0ne6euntBAgE9m8lfJKTEsDly7uJLoXVqAj5t32mA4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tTUSi8t3qnkaJPog9dmBjN0kqg4Lpv7Ov3jjNkdwWm2Wz2eelWycXX2VEyZHyo2fu6dnXkO5K08aq72t/sPY3zYRnZacArNpd2EthHliLWr8ry+aRVn6LzCnJZWp8YZK6tiSrnnW5SZZztvD3m7XPxxG48V2gL2dNrhft4CUHdM= Received: by 10.141.206.13 with SMTP id i13mr1181636rvq.211.1210197981560; Wed, 07 May 2008 15:06:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.127.7 with HTTP; Wed, 7 May 2008 15:06:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <237967ef0805071506h4cff17a4id68641b6bd5f0ce3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 00:06:21 +0200 From: "Mikael Magnusson" To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Bug#479764: shell builtin mv fails to move files across devices In-Reply-To: <20080507213034.GL13554@prunille.vinc17.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080506144208.GA15225@lapse.madduck.net> <20080506150303.GB31177@scru.org> <080506084541.ZM1350@torch.brasslantern.com> <20080506165555.GB17377@lapse.madduck.net> <20080506205523.GA4237@redoubt.spodhuis.org> <20080507213034.GL13554@prunille.vinc17.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/7051/Wed May 7 22:31:12 2008 on bifrost X-Virus-Status: Clean 2008/5/7 Vincent Lefevre : > 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.