Argument list too long.
Mike A. Harris
mharris at redhat.com
Sun Sep 14 07:02:25 UTC 2003
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:
>> >Seems plausible but unpractical in some situations. Eg. you're resigning
>> >thousands of files, too long for the argument list. Doing it one by one
>> >would force you to enter your passphrase a thousand times.
>>
>> xargs isn't called once per argument, so you wouldn't do it 1000
>> times. A few times perhaps. Red Hat signs tonnes of RPM
>> packages, and we never seem to have a problem with this. ;o)
>
>You people aren't using a passphrase ? ;)
Of course there is a passphrase.
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