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Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long |
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Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:37:24 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote:
> I am root on my (Linux) system and I set the stack size to unlimited. The
> libtool macro reported a few billion (or something other really large)
> for maximum argument list length, bash also agreed (it easily executed
> the "distdir" target when copied into a bash script), but make doesn't.
> Both gnu make and pmake abort with the "too long" message.
What Linux kernel version are you using? Note that linux-2.6.23 and
later kernels have changed how this is handled.
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument-list-too-long
Bob
- execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long, Pippijn van Steenhoven, 2010/11/08
- Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/11/08
- Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long, Pippijn van Steenhoven, 2010/11/08
- Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/11/08
- Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long, Pippijn van Steenhoven, 2010/11/08
- Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long, Pippijn van Steenhoven, 2010/11/09
- Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/11/11
- Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long, Pippijn van Steenhoven, 2010/11/12
- Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long,
Bob Proulx <=
- Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long, Pippijn van Steenhoven, 2010/11/09