Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:55:56 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: File Limit in Kernel? |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > > cp -f * /usr/local/www/images > > Kind of. The * is expanded by the shell. The kernel limits the max > length of program arguments, which is biting you here. In theory you > could increase the MAX_ARG_PAGES #define in linux/binfmts.h and > recompile. No guarantee that it won't have any bad side effects > though. The default is rather low, it should be probably increased > (I also regularly run into this)
Yes, you can do this. I used to do it with 2.0 kernels, because our "make" command lines were very lock, and you couldn't use files to hold the list of make-generated names because even "echo $(LIST_OF_FILES) > list" hit this limit.
Ages ago somebody promised to fix this limitation :)
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