Re: File Limit in Kernel?

[Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> > cp -f * /usr/local/www/images
> 
> Kind of. The * is expanded by the shell. The kernel limits the max
> length of program arguments, which is biting you here. In theory you
> could increase the MAX_ARG_PAGES #define in linux/binfmts.h and
> recompile. No guarantee that it won't have any bad side effects
> though. The default is rather low, it should be probably increased 
> (I also regularly run into this)

Yes, you can do this.  I used to do it with 2.0 kernels, because our
"make" command lines were very lock, and you couldn't use files to
hold the list of make-generated names because even "echo
$(LIST_OF_FILES) > list" hit this limit.

Ages ago somebody promised to fix this limitation :)

-- Jamie