> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark E. Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 10:48 AM > To: Jim Searle > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: cvs rtag: cannot exec ...: Argument list too long > > > Jim Searle wrote: > > For a directory with a large number of files I get this error: cvs > > tag: cannot exec .../tag_prep.pl: Argument list too long > > > > I searched the mailing lists and find references of this issue that > > are very old, but I'm not able to find any fix... > > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2002-02/msg00265.html > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > - Jim > > Jim, > > This is an operating system problem. Some internal buffer is to small > for the number of files in the directory. I've seen it in on > a number of > different types of systems (IBM, SGI, Linux.) On most any system you > reproduce this error with: > > ls `find /some/big/directory/hierarchy` > > (You can back up the hierarchy untill you go over the limit > if you want > to find out about what it is.) > > You didn't provide enough context, so I'm guessing that this is > happening in a script invoked by taginfo. From the man page > the command > would look something like this: > > .../tag_prep.pl tagname operation repository {filename revision} ... > > > If a taginfo.sh script (instead of tag_prep.pl) does this: > > #!/bin/bash > echo $@ > > the output looks something like this: > > sahp6613% cvs rtag test_tag2 dir1 > test_tag2 add /var/scratch/mhamilt/cvsrepos/test/dir1 test.dat 1.1 > test1.dat 1.1 > > Basically, you've just got too many {filename revision} pairs on the > command line, which means that you've got too many files in that > repository directory. (I suspect that if you went into that > repository > directory and did an 'ls *' you'd get the same error, though > depending > on how close to the limit you are the revision numbers for each file > could be what's pushing you over.) > > The two solutions that I know of are to find out where this buffer is > configured (in the kernal?) and make it bigger, or reduce the > number of > files you've got in that repository directory. >
Mark, Thanks for the detailed information. It just seems like a simple solution to this would be to modify cvs to allow the files to be passed in via stdin instead of the command line, as mentioned in this post: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2002-02/msg00265.html Thanks, Jim _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
