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Re: Bug#479764: shell builtin mv fails to move files across devices



2008/5/7 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 2008-05-06 13:55:23 -0700, Phil Pennock wrote:
>  > Most people shouldn't need to use it.
>
>  I use it *by default* just because of the Linux kernel bug^Wlimitation
>  concerning the argument list (I often exceed it). But perhaps I should
>  write my own shell function as a wrapper to coreutils and use xargs or
>  zargs when necessary.

This bug^Wlimitation has been fixed^Wraised in linux 2.6.23 from some
hundred kilobytes to 1/4 of ulimit -s, so by default 2MB but you can
make it limited only by available ram if you want.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

ps I don't know how much of the cc i'm supposed to keep, but this is
sort of off topic to the debian bug anyway so i guess it doesn't
really matter.



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