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From: hugh@redvax.uucp ("D. Hugh Redelmeier")
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To: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: strangeness with big variables under ultrix 4.1

|  'Arg list too long' is actually 'Arg list or environment too long',
| because most Unixes have a limit on the total argument list + environment
| size that execve() will handle.

Well, here is a practical reason to not have every rc variable
exported.  I have argued this on aesthetic grounds before.

Hugh Redelmeier
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