Re: Maxium command line args?

[Derek R. Price]

No, but I had some further thoughts on the matter.  I still only see this as a
short term fix, but how about if the behavior changes on a pipe ('|') as the 
first
character rather than something so specific as xargs or the name of some
environment variable?

Derek

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Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> Did anything ever come of this?
>
> Forrest
>
> At 11:23 AM 3/1/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > > we use CVS to maintain our DNS data.  We also use a DNS regression
> > > suite (see http://www.quick.com.au/help/dns.html) to do pre-commit
> > > checks - very handy.
> > >
> > > The above toolset includes facilities for generating PTR records.
> > > If/when we re-configure said tool, it can cause a few hundred in-addr
> > > zone files to change.
> > >
> > > This typically causes the pre-commit checks to fail as the OS command
> > > line length is exceeded when cvs attempts to run the regression suite
> > > in that directory.
> > >
> > > The patch below (to cvs-1.10) modifies precommit_proc() such that if
> > > the pre-commit filter command begins with "xargs" or _PATH_XARGS, then
> > > it is run using run_popen() rather than run_exec().
> >
> >Hmm.  I think the long term fix for this is to use XML or CGI or the like to
> >always pass any data needed by the child on stdin.  There was a discussion
> >on this
> >matter on one of the lists sometime over the last couple months.
> >
> >I don't like this as a long term fix because the *info hooks should work
> >in some
> >uniform manner and, at the least, the verifymsg and loginfo hooks already
> >accept
> >data on stdin.
> >
> >I might not object to something like this as a temporary fix, though.  What 
> >do
> >other people think?
> >
> >Derek