Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:59:21 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Putinas Piliponis <Putinas.Piliponis@hansa.lt> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased? Message-ID: <20040923135921.GK2493@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <217202CB5FF8AE439E263CE3D48ECB50686C37@honda.int.hansa.lt> References: <217202CB5FF8AE439E263CE3D48ECB50686C37@honda.int.hansa.lt>
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--OY4z34RctfP64Hws Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --OY4z34RctfP64Hws Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBUta4ocfcwTS3JF8RAtQfAKC91a1jChC0nxe6BHdtMiiYSfVuPgCghfmU k++a4F03sV5bwBp/nUWsado= =UJbX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OY4z34RctfP64Hws--
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