[Mageia-sysadm] [1827] add small maintdb script

[nicolas vigier]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:

> Op vrijdag 29 juli 2011 17:11:00 schreef Michael Scherer:
> > Le vendredi 29 juillet 2011 à 16:55 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
> > > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
> > > > > +function maintgetall()
> > > > > +{
> > > > > +    cd "$MAINTDBDIR"
> > > > > +    for file in *
> > > > 
> > > > Wouldn't this one have problem the day we have too much maintainers ?
> > > 
> > > too much packages ?
> > 
> > Mhh, yes :)
> > 
> > > > ( even if "too much" is, according to my test, more than 60000 so this
> > > > is just a retorical question )
> > > 
> > > According to tune2fs we have 1148096 free inodes, so that should be
> > > enough. I don't know the limit for the "*" expansion.
> > 
> > There used to be one, but maybe it was just in a time when kernel 2.4
> > was hype :)
> > ( or maybe that was on a bsd or os x ).
> 
> iirc * expansion is shell dependant and was 255 in the early days and may have 
> been 16383, but i think it's 65535 now for a while... i know certain 2.6 
> kernels do have a limit, because i ran into it once (don't ask)

You're probably talking about the limit in the size of arguments for a
new process. But "for" is not a process, so I'm not sure there is a
limit.