[plug] xargs, "Argument list too long"

[Cameron Patrick]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:10:02AM +0800, James Devenish wrote:

| Having no limit of any form, or an maximum that can be
| dynamically increased by general users, might be fine for single-user
| machines but would be a bit of a liability on multi-user machines and
| network hosts.

*removes tongue from cheek*

Erm, why?  This sounds like the kind of thing that should be handled by
ulimit, either as a maximum memory limit or as a separate limit for
maximum command line per process.

CP.