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[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

Sam Clemens wrote:
> Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
> > Randall R Schulz:
> >
> > > There's no way for xargs to know about anything other
> > > than the kernel-imposed argument list size limit.
> >
> > Where can I read the argument list size limit? I fail to see anything 
> > relevant with ulimit -a or in proc or in pam's limits.conf.
>
> check the man pages for the shells
> usually they list the length of the command line buffer.
> In 4.3 BSD, I believe the buffer was 10 kiB. -- which I
> thought was deliriously excessive back before I understood
> shell scripting and filename globbing.

That's true and interesting, but not really relevant to the xargs 
discussion. xargs doesn't use the shell command line buffer limit, 
but the *ARG_MAX limits from sysconf(3) and takes also the 
environment space into account.

Best,
        Joachim

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Joachim Schrod                          Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
Roedermark, Germany

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