On 8/13/2012 4:38 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 08/13/2012 12:39 PM, David Cullen wrote: >> When running "make distclean" in a cross chroot environment, the >> following messages are emitted: >> >> [user@host:/home/work/linux]: make distclean >> /usr/bin/xargs: rm: Argument list too long >> make: *** [clean] Error 126 >> > > That sounds like a bug in xargs... > > -hpa >
In my specific case, qemu-arm-static calls xargs (In fact, in my cross chroot, qemu-arm-static is used to run every user mode process). Do you mean that qemu-arm-static is exposing a latent defect in xargs? Does qemu-arm-static steal some of the command line space that would normally be available for xargs? If so, how would xargs figure out this was happening and handle the problem? -- Thank you, David Cullen
