Re: cvs rtag: cannot exec ...: Argument list too long

[Mark E. Hamilton]

Jim Searle wrote:
> 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

Probably not a simple solution, since as the article points out it would 
have to be done in a way that wouldn't break existing taginfo scripts. 
The CVS gurus on this list would have more insight into that.

Also, the poster in the article mentioned that he didn't need the fourth 
argument. However, stdin is also a buffer somewhere in the system, and 
if a filter doesn't read all of it CVS can fail with a 'broken pipe' 
error (see the comments about this in the loginfo section:

http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.12.13/cvs_18.html#SEC193

Someone suggested in a private e-mail that xargs() can be used to get 
around this. I must admit to being unfamiliar with xargs(), so I'll take 
his word for it. ;)

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