[plug] xargs, "Argument list too long"

[Mike Holland]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Craig Ringer wrote:

> I don't think it'd really be something you'd need to limit per-user or 
> per-process like ulimit allows. That'd add another overhead to each 

Why have any limit, aside from the existing memory limit?

> I run into this problem with mkisofs a lot, and its a real PITA since 
> you can't just mkisofs in 3 runs....

See "mkisofs -path-list <file>"
e.g.  "find <blah blah> | mkisofs -path-list - -o my.iso"

> echo 128 > /proc/sys/max_arg_pages
> 
> would be really, really nice.

That'd be easy to implement, except maybe the race conditions.
Those last two words are scary.

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