Bug 439593

Summary: xargs on Fedora 9 Beta (rawhide) throws errors
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Anderson Silva <ansilva>
Component: findutilsAssignee: Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Anderson Silva 2008-03-29 13:44:11 UTC 
Description of problem:

[root@localhost ansilva]# xargs
xargs: xargs.c:443: main: Assertion `bc_ctl.arg_max <= (131072-2048)' failed.
Aborted

[root@localhost ansilva]# ls -1
Desktop
Documents
Download
Music
oo.txt
Pictures
Public
Templates
Videos

[root@localhost ansilva]# ls -1 | xargs
xargs: xargs.c:443: main: Assertion `bc_ctl.arg_max <= (131072-2048)' failed.
Aborted


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

findutils-4.2.33-1.fc9.i386

How reproducible:

Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. any call to xargs dies
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

xargs: xargs.c:443: main: Assertion `bc_ctl.arg_max <= (131072-2048)' failed.
Aborted

Expected results:

the regular xargs behavior: build and execute command lines from standard input


Additional info:
Comment 1 Anderson Silva 2008-03-29 15:34:28 UTC 
ok, the latest rawhide update (from this morning) fixed the issue.