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Re: type errors, command length limits, and Awk (was: portability of xar
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Dan Kegel |
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Re: type errors, command length limits, and Awk (was: portability of xargs) |
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Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:08:05 -0800 |
FWIW, commandline length limits are a real thing, I've run into them
with Make, CMake, and Meson.
I did some work to help address them in Meson, see e.g.
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/7212
And just for fun, here's a vaguely related changelog entry from long
ago, back when things were much worse:
Tue Jun 8 15:24:14 1993 Paul Eggert (eggert@twinsun.com)
* inp.c (plan_a): Check that RCS and working files are not the
same. This check is needed on hosts that do not report file
name length limits and have short limits.
:-)
- Re: portability of xargs, (continued)
type errors, command length limits, and Awk (was: portability of xargs), Jacob Bachmeyer, 2022/02/15