From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 22 21:28:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA01288 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 21:28:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01282 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 21:28:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id VAA17805; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 21:27:44 -0800 Message-Id: <199601230527.VAA17805@Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Josh MacDonald cc: Warner Losh , Wolfram Schneider , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: recursive grep In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 1996 20:33:40 PST." <199601230433.UAA12940@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 21:27:44 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Oh, well anyhow _SC_ARG_MAX is set at 64k which I have found exceedingly >low. How do you change this anyways? It's not easily changed without causing other problems. 64K already results in potentially 1MB of memory being temporarily consumed. I need to make some changes to kern_exec.c to add support for a resource wait when "string" space isn't allocateable. Right now it returns ENOMEM if more than 16 processes simultaneously exec. This is an extremely rare condition, but possible. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project