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To: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@cs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: recursive grep 
Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, hackers@freebsd.org
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 21:42:22 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: Oh, well anyhow _SC_ARG_MAX is set at 64k which I have found exceedingly
: low.  How do you change this anyways?

hack /usr/src/sys/sys/syslimits.h ; make world :-)

: I've written a rcs front end that execs a ci command with a bunch of 
: filenames buffered.  It has to split this in order to checkin something
: like the emacs source tree, how annoying :)

ls . | xargs ci

should do the trick as well :-)

Warner