I received some mail very recently indicating that the findutils-4.2.26 test suite spuriously fails on some systems (but works OK on 32-bit x86 Linux systems). Unfortunately I can't find it now, I suspect I accidentally deleted it this morning. Sorry about that.
Anyway, the attached patch includes a proposed fix for the test suite. The modified tests still verify that the problem has been fixed, they just no longer depend on the exact value of ARG_MAX on the system where the test suite is being run being the same as ARG_MAX on the system where I tested the code. I had also been told that the many-short-arguments problem (supposedly fixed in 4.2.26) still persists on the hppa platform. In the course of preparing the patch I discovered a possible cause for this (we were checking our argument count in two places, but the bugfix had only been applied in one). I would like to know if this patch also fixes that problem. The patch should apply cleanly against findutils-4.2.26. Thanks, James.
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