new coreutils snapshot

2007-09-03 Thread Jim Meyering
The latest coreutils snapshot is here (note the new naming scheme): http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-ss.tar.gz http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-ss.tar.gz.sig Those files are just links to these: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-235-4055c.tar.gz http://meyering.net/cu/coreutil

Re: [FAQ] ARG_MAX and POSIX

2007-09-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Mascheck wrote: > The FAQ, item 19. "Argument list too long", reads about ARG_MAX: > >"POSIX only requires 20k which was the traditional value used > for probably 20 years." > > In fact, this minimum is 4096. (It's accessible in the shell with > "getconf _POSIX_ARG_MAX" on such a sys