[PLUG] avoiding "Argument list too long" error.

[alan]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

> # from Brent Rieck
> # on Monday 09 October 2006 02:50 pm:
>
>> Google tells me that it's actually a kernel issue and to make
>> things work as intended I must recompile my kernel.
>
> Yes, it is a kernel issue.  And, not just your command-line, but also
> your environment variables.
>
> From the kernel source:
>  $ grep ARG_MAX include/linux/limits.h
>  #define ARG_MAX   131072	/* # bytes of args + environ for exec() */

You would think this could be set from ulimit.  That would be too easy.

ulimit does handle a few things that you used to have to recompile for, 
such as filehandles.  If it handles arg_max they have not updated the man 
pages to cover it.

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