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From: Justin C. Sherrill <justin@...>
To: <kernel@...>
Subject: Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008)
Date: Monday, February 11, 2008 - 10:24 pm

On Mon, February 11, 2008 7:25 pm, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:


We have two problems:
- excess memory usage by handling too many files at once.
- rm, ls, and other common programs will fail when handling many files.

xargs is a workaround for tiny memory spaces we don't have any more.  I'm
expressing frustration that we don't have a solution that fixes both
problems.  Or rather, that we have a solution that causes a problem.
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Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008), Dave Hayes, (Mon Feb 11, 6:40 pm)
Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008), Justin C. Sherrill, (Mon Feb 11, 8:18 pm)
Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008), Bill Hacker, (Tue Feb 12, 2:20 am)
Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008), Simon 'corecode' Schubert..., (Mon Feb 11, 8:25 pm)
Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008), Justin C. Sherrill, (Mon Feb 11, 10:24 pm)
Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008), Michael Neumann, (Tue Feb 12, 6:37 am)
Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008), Simon 'corecode' Schubert..., (Tue Feb 12, 7:08 am)
Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008), Aggelos Economopoulos, (Tue Feb 12, 1:56 am)
Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008), Chris Turner, (Tue Feb 12, 8:59 am)
Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008), Aggelos Economopoulos, (Tue Feb 12, 10:32 am)
Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008), Simon 'corecode' Schubert..., (Tue Feb 12, 10:23 am)