[Mageia-sysadm] [1827] add small maintdb script

Sat Jul 30 01:52:23 CEST 2011

On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+
+> Op vrijdag 29 juli 2011 17:11:00 schreef Michael Scherer:
+> > Le vendredi 29 juillet 2011 à 16:55 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> > > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> > > > > +function maintgetall()
+> > > > > +{
+> > > > > +    cd "$MAINTDBDIR"
+> > > > > +    for file in *
+> > > > 
+> > > > Wouldn't this one have problem the day we have too much maintainers ?
+> > > 
+> > > too much packages ?
+> > 
+> > Mhh, yes :)
+> > 
+> > > > ( even if "too much" is, according to my test, more than 60000 so this
+> > > > is just a retorical question )
+> > > 
+> > > According to tune2fs we have 1148096 free inodes, so that should be
+> > > enough. I don't know the limit for the "*" expansion.
+> > 
+> > There used to be one, but maybe it was just in a time when kernel 2.4
+> > was hype :)
+> > ( or maybe that was on a bsd or os x ).
+> 
+> iirc * expansion is shell dependant and was 255 in the early days and may have 
+> been 16383, but i think it's 65535 now for a while... i know certain 2.6 
+> kernels do have a limit, because i ran into it once (don't ask)
+
+You're probably talking about the limit in the size of arguments for a
+new process. But "for" is not a process, so I'm not sure there is a
+limit.
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