On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 02:10:46PM -0800, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> > but I would argue that existing documentation is
> > sufficient.
>
> This is where I must disagree.
>
> The error message complains about "arguments", but
> the problem is with the "environment". It
> inevitably misleads
[...]
> > but I didn't see where it mentions adding the
> > sizes of envp and argv.
> The manpage is also in Debian, manpages-dev, and mentions it.
OK. It's good to see that the sum is mentioned
somewhere.
[...]
> $ strace -f sh ./bug.1.sh 2>&1 |grep exec |tail -1
> [pid 24558] execve("/bin/egrep
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:25:15PM -0800, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> On 02/12/06 11:29, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:12:39AM -0800, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> > > On 02/10/06 15:30, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > > The problem is that ARG_MAX applies to the sum
> > > > of
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:12:39AM -0800, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> On 02/10/06 15:30, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > The problem is that ARG_MAX applies to the sum
> > of envp and argv;
>
> H... I didn't know that.
>
> If you're certain that envp is included in the
Did you check the manpage e
On 02/10/06 15:30, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> The problem is that ARG_MAX applies to the sum
> of envp and argv;
H... I didn't know that.
If you're certain that envp is included in the
sum, then shouldn't the error message reflect that
it is?
Thanks,
Kingsley
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> On 02/09/06 12:12, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > So, I think this bug is fully understood. /bin/egrep just calls
> > grep -E "$@", so if $@ is MAXARGS-1, the -E puts it over the edge.
> > The error starts with "/bin/egrep" since that is the name of the
> > command; if you were to mv /bin/{egrep,foo}
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