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From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 04:54:56PM +0300, Putinas Piliponis wrote:
>=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Cyrille Lefevre
> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:47 PM
> > To: Juha Saarinen; freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased?
> >=20
> > "Juha Saarinen" <juhasaarinen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Currently, ARG_MAX is set to:
> > >=20
> > > $ getconf ARG_MAX
> > > 65536
> > > =20
> > > in syslimits.h. This is quite low compared to other OS (SunOS has 1MB
> > > IIRC, and OpenBSD 3.5 256K) and causes the "argument list too long"
> > > issues when for instance grep'ing in directories with lots of files.
> >=20
> >=20
> > how about grep -r ou find | xargs grep !
> >=20
>=20
> but this is workaround - isn't it ?=20

Well yes, but you need to know how to workaround this.  Otherwise, what
happens when you hit ARG_MAX limit?  You lobby the developer of that
system to up the number and then upgrade?

Ceri
--=20
It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin.  I am a robot.

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