Re: Hashing and directories

[Alexander Viro]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> >         * userland issues (what, you thought that limits on the
> > command size will go away?)
> 
> Last I checked, the command line size limit wasn't a userland issue, but
> rather a limit of the kernel exec().  This might have changed.

I _really_ don't want to trust the ability of shell to deal with long
command lines. I also don't like the failure modes with history expansion
causing OOM, etc.

AFAICS right now we hit the kernel limit first, but I really doubt that
raising said limit is a good idea.

xargs is there for purpose...
                                                        Cheers,
                                                                Al

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