On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:24:39AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to Christopher Faylor on 9/20/2005 10:05 AM:
>>AFAICT, we're not talking about defaults. We're talking about the
>>optimum setting.
>>
>>Your change to xargs doesn't permit me to go beyond 32K. Personally,
>>I'd like to be abl
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According to Christopher Faylor on 9/20/2005 10:05 AM:
> AFAICT, we're not talking about defaults. We're talking about the
> optimum setting.
>
> Your change to xargs doesn't permit me to go beyond 32K. Personally,
> I'd like to be able to override
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 06:43:20AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to Christopher Faylor on 9/19/2005 8:31 AM:
>>If this is really true, then the findutils configury should be
>>attempting some kind of timing which finds that magic point where it
>>should be ignoring _SC_ARG_MAX. It shouldn't
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According to Christopher Faylor on 9/19/2005 8:31 AM:
> If this is really true, then the findutils configury should be
> attempting some kind of timing which finds that magic point where it
> should be ignoring _SC_ARG_MAX. It shouldn't be vaguely ass
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:31:01AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:09:55PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>Also, the argument brought up on the findutils mailing list was that
>>beyond a certain size, the cost of processing each argument starts to
>>outweigh the benefits of
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:09:55PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>Also, the argument brought up on the findutils mailing list was that
>beyond a certain size, the cost of processing each argument starts to
>outweigh the benefits of forking fewer tasks, to the point that the
>difference between a 32k ARG
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According to Corinna Vinschen on 9/12/2005 9:22 AM:
>>Even with your recent patches to make cygwin programs receive longer command
>>lines, whether or not they are not mounted cygexec, ARG_MAX should still
>>reflect
>>the worst case limit so that prog
Eric,
On Sep 10 14:55, Eric Blake wrote:
> Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
>
> Just making sure this patch didn't fall through the cracks...
>
> >
> > 2005-09-06 Eric Blake byu.net>
> >
> > * include/limits.h (ARG_MAX): New limit.
> > * sysconf.cc (sysconf): _SC_ARG_MAX: Use it.
>
> E
Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
Just making sure this patch didn't fall through the cracks...
>
> 2005-09-06 Eric Blake byu.net>
>
> * include/limits.h (ARG_MAX): New limit.
> * sysconf.cc (sysconf): _SC_ARG_MAX: Use it.
Even with your recent patches to make cygwin programs receive
