From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:56:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:56:19 -0400 Received: from pixar.pixar.com ([138.72.10.20]:10460 "EHLO pixar.pixar.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:56:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:53:09 -0700 From: Kiril Vidimce To: Carl Spalletta cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: max arguments for exec In-Reply-To: <20010927154840.74967.qmail@web13307.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- ___________________________________________________________________ Studio Tools vkire@pixar.com Pixar Animation Studios http://www.pixar.com/