Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:13:38 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Hashing and directories |
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > * userland issues (what, you thought that limits on the > > command size will go away?) > > Last I checked, the command line size limit wasn't a userland issue, but > rather a limit of the kernel exec(). This might have changed.
I _really_ don't want to trust the ability of shell to deal with long command lines. I also don't like the failure modes with history expansion causing OOM, etc.
AFAICS right now we hit the kernel limit first, but I really doubt that raising said limit is a good idea.
xargs is there for purpose... Cheers, Al
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