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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 01:35:31 +0100
From: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: cp/mv/etc : argument list too long ... I am sick of this
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2005/12/6, Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>:
> The sysctl kern.argmax reflects the maximum argument list size.  It's
> set to 65536, at least in 4.11,

just for info:

kern.argmax: 262144
on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE

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