From: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: strangeness with big variables under ultrix 4.1
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 13:38:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9202261938.AA00796@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> (raw)
I have just dicovered a strangeness running rc1.3b on a decstation
ultrix 4.1:
allman = `{ man -nrsp '.*' }
This assigns allman the names of all manpages available, in short, a very
large value (>250KB).
After doing so, any external command issued, with or without arguments,
gives the error message
'<prgname>: Arg list too long'
so I can't find out what happens.
Is this a bug in rc or ultrix ?
Malte.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-02-26 19:38 malte [this message]
1992-02-26 21:08 ` Chris Siebenmann
1992-02-26 19:51 Rich Salz
1992-02-27 1:07 ` Matthew Farwell
1992-02-26 21:56 "D. Hugh Redelmeier"
1992-02-26 22:33 ` Chris Siebenmann
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