<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/1/30, Chris F.A. Johnson <<a href="mailto:cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA@public.gmane.org">cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA@public.gmane.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Byron Sonne wrote:<br><br>> When I had a dir with a proverbial billion files in it, under reiser an<br>> ls -al would throw an error like 'too many arguments'. I reinstalled my<br>> system last night, converted to ext3, and now ls -al doesn't throw and
<br>> error anymore.<br>><br>> If one were a betting person, would you be inclined to think the success<br>> is due to (1) new file system or (2) modifications to the ls program?</blockquote><div><br>I think the reason is neither (1) nor (2). It's caused by glibc. If you modify glibc and re-compile the ls program, it should be ok.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> More likely you used a different command. If you just do 'ls -al',
<br> you would not get 'too many arguments'. If you do 'ls -al *' you<br> will.</blockquote><div><br>Agree <br></div><br></div><br>