* Re: strangeness with big variables under ultrix 4.1
@ 1992-02-26 21:56 "D. Hugh Redelmeier"
1992-02-26 22:33 ` Chris Siebenmann
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From: "D. Hugh Redelmeier" @ 1992-02-26 21:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cks, rc
| '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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@ 1992-02-26 19:51 Rich Salz
1992-02-27 1:07 ` Matthew Farwell
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From: Rich Salz @ 1992-02-26 19:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: malte, rc
Rc puts everything in the environment and most systems have a limit
on the size of the environment...
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* Re: strangeness with big variables under ultrix 4.1
1992-02-26 19:51 Rich Salz
@ 1992-02-27 1:07 ` Matthew Farwell
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From: Matthew Farwell @ 1992-02-27 1:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rc
In article <9202261951.AA15500@litchi.bbn.com> you write:
>Rc puts everything in the environment and most systems have a limit
>on the size of the environment...
Maybe someone should write an xargs-like program for the environment,
:-)
Dylan.
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If you can waggle it and he can feel it, you have a signalling system.
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* strangeness with big variables under ultrix 4.1
@ 1992-02-26 19:38 malte
1992-02-26 21:08 ` Chris Siebenmann
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From: malte @ 1992-02-26 19:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rc
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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1992-02-26 19:38 malte
@ 1992-02-26 21:08 ` Chris Siebenmann
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From: Chris Siebenmann @ 1992-02-26 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rc
'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. Ultrix just has a somewhat lower limit
than other systems (I think SunOS has really cranked it up, for example).
- cks
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