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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:05:47 -0400
From: Geoff Speicher <geoff@speicher.org>
To: Putinas Piliponis <Putinas.Piliponis@hansa.lt>
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 04:54:56PM +0300, Putinas Piliponis wrote:
> but this is workaround - isn't it ? 

It's not so much a workaround as it is a general purpose solution.  You
can never increase ARG_MAX enough to cover all possible scenarios.

Geoff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Cyrille Lefevre
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:47 PM
> To: Juha Saarinen; freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased?
> 
> "Juha Saarinen" <juhasaarinen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Currently, ARG_MAX is set to:
> > 
> > $ getconf ARG_MAX
> > 65536
> >  
> > in syslimits.h. This is quite low compared to other OS (SunOS has 1MB
> > IIRC, and OpenBSD 3.5 256K) and causes the "argument list too long"
> > issues when for instance grep'ing in directories with lots of files.
> 
> 
> how about grep -r ou find | xargs grep !
> 
> Cyrille Lefevre.
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