From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 19:11:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F53316A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:11:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pit.databus.com (p70-227.acedsl.com [66.114.70.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC6743D54 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:11:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from barney@pit.databus.com) Received: from pit.databus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pit.databus.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8NJBGq5074098; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:11:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from barney@pit.databus.com) Received: (from barney@localhost) by pit.databus.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i8NJBGX6074097; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:11:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from barney) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:11:16 -0400 From: Barney Wolff To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20040923191116.GA69716@pit.databus.com> References: <217202CB5FF8AE439E263CE3D48ECB50686C37@honda.int.hansa.lt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Putinas Piliponis Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:11:19 -0000 On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:28:02PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > No, that is the solution which will work for any number of files, > on any Unix-based system. No matter what we increase MAX_ARGS to, > it still be possible that some users will have a good reason to > need to process even more args. > > The `find' command takes a little time to get comfortable with, > but it is a very useful utility program for some situations. I > have hit the limits in Solaris, for instance, and one of the > earlier messages claimed that Sun uses a value of 1meg for MAX_ARGS. > > I have nothing against the idea of increasing the value of MAX_ARGS, > as long as people realize that increasing it will not solve the issue > for all situations. I spent 20 years on systems with a max of 5120. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.