From: Kiril Vidimce <vkire@pixar.com>
To: Carl Spalletta <cspalletta@nectarsystems.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: max arguments for exec
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:53:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0109270952060.37081-100000@eclipse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010927154840.74967.qmail@web13307.mail.yahoo.com>
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Carl Spalletta wrote:
> kiril,
>
> I am guessing that you want to avoid a custom kernel
> in order that your programs shall be portable.
>
> So, I am having a hard time understanding why putting
> the command line args into a file instead of on the
> command line, in a way similar to grep and many other
> programs:
>
> "fgrep -F patternfile"
>
> would not answer the case.
>
> Is there any absolute need to have so many args passed
> to exec from the command line?
We are using third party software over which we have no
control. So, it's not up to us.
KV
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-27 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-27 15:48 Carl Spalletta
2001-09-27 16:53 ` Kiril Vidimce [this message]
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2001-09-26 21:25 Kiril Vidimce
2001-09-27 2:27 ` Keith Owens
2001-09-27 3:23 ` Kiril Vidimce
2001-09-27 8:18 ` Ingo Molnar
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