On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:11:02AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > This is of little practical consequence unless someone really wants to > pass a 2 MB command line to a program... but as a curiosity, I ran a > diff of a Koji build log from last year against a build from this year, > and I noticed something odd in the configure spew. > > Old build log: > checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1966080 > > New build log: > checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 > > Anyone know why this got smaller? It's 1572864 on my F20 machine as > well.
I don't know the answer to your question, but I found quite a good summary of all the possible issues with command line argument max length here: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
