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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:21:26 +0000
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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] env size limit
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yes.

for instance when there are a few thousand source files
and one wants to link them all.

2009/10/27 erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>:
> On Tue Oct 27 12:52:52 EDT 2009, rogpeppe@gmail.com wrote:
>> the environment variable size limit is set to 16300 bytes which
>> seems rather small; for instance it can break mkfiles for large projects.
>>
>> might a patch specifying a larger size limit (e.g. 128K) be accepted?
>
> you need a single variable that's bigger than 16300 bytes?
>
> - erik
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>