rawhide report: 20080327 changes: glibc breaks xargs?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:52:44 +0100,
  David Nielsen <gnomeuser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/3/28, Paul Dickson <paul at permanentmail.com>:
> >
> > Starting with Thursday's updates, and continuing with today's, xargs is
> > given the following error:
> >
> > xargs: xargs.c:443: main: Assertion `bc_ctl.arg_max <= (131072-2048)'
> > failed.
> >
> > This start happening immediately after yum finish, and I was running
> > repomanage to clear some room.  I suspect the glibc update.
> >
> > I shortened the list of files by running through head into a new file,
> > but that shortened list would not work either.
> 
> 
> This is a known issue, our finest minds are working on it.. I hope.
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439168

There is also a new version in Koji that claims to have fixed this.
I did a quick test (on a system that hadn't gotten the glibc update just yet)
and it seems to work.