Re: bin/37666: xargs: Argument list too long

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

>  On Wed, 02 Jan 2008, cheusov%tut.by@localhost wrote:
 >>    xargs: cat: Argument list too long
>  
>  xargs(1) in NetBSD-current takes the environment into account when
>  working out how many args it may pass, but xargs(1) in netbsd-4 and
>  earlier do not.  I believe that this is the cause of the problem you
>  saw.
revision 1.16
date: 2007/04/18 15:56:07;  author: christos;  state: Exp;  lines: +461 -194
Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our GNU compatible
exit values.

>  Please try the appended patch.
Now it works fine. Thank you.

What about porting this fix no earlier NetBSD releases?

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.