Re: argv (Re: refactoring when using CVS)

[Paul Sander]

On Solaris, it's more than a megabyte.

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>Does anyone know what the argv[] limit is for solaris 2.6? I have tested
>pserver with up to 50 --allow-root options being passed and seemed to work
>fine.

>--- Kaz Kylheku <address@hidden> wrote:

>> It's your OS kernel that imposes the limitation, not the shell. The
>> limitation is on how much argv[] and env[] crap can be passed to
>> a child process. 
>> 
>> So the backquote method will simply blow up if that limit is exceeded.

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