[plug] xargs, "Argument list too long"

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Thu Jan 30 11:38:15 WST 2003


On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:50:12AM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:

|    Can anybody tell me why it would be a really bad idea to try and fix 
| this? (Replacing MAX_ARG_PAGES with a dynamic num_arg_pages)

Linux was written in C which makes memory allocation a pain.  If the kernel was
written in Python we wouldn't have this problem.  *ducks*

CP.



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