Andi Kleen wrote:
> > cp -f * /usr/local/www/images
>
> Kind of. The * is expanded by the shell. The kernel limits the max
> length of program arguments, which is biting you here. In theory you
> could increase the MAX_ARG_PAGES #define in linux/binfmts.h and
> recompile. No guarantee that it won't have any bad side effects
> though. The default is rather low, it should be probably increased
> (I also regularly run into this)
Yes, you can do this. I used to do it with 2.0 kernels, because our
"make" command lines were very lock, and you couldn't use files to
hold the list of make-generated names because even "echo
$(LIST_OF_FILES) > list" hit this limit.
Ages ago somebody promised to fix this limitation :)
-- Jamie
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