November 2005 Archives

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:04:45 +0000

things I did not know ...

I have just learned that Linux imposes a limit not only on the lenght of the commandline (ARG_MAX) but also on the number of arguments. xargs in findutils 4.2.26 features a fix to respect this limit. I do hope this was the source of bug 313028 which I never managed to reproduce.

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Posted by Andreas Metzler | Permanent link | File under: linux

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:34:42 +0000

meme time

Hmm, I cannot resist following up Clint's and Jaldhar's have you read geeky books"-meme. I "score" 10/20 on the first list, but only 4.5 on the second one (Stephenson _again_, Pynchon, Tolkien, Lem and "Through The Looking Glass.) BTW reading now: Chronicles of Narnia, next in queue Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten.

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Posted by Andreas Metzler | Permanent link | File under: fun
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