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From: Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: strangeness with big variables under ultrix 4.1
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 15:08:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <92Feb26.160835est.2718@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: malte's message of Wed, 26 Feb 92 14:38:39 -0500. <9202261938.AA00796@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>

 '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


  reply	other threads:[~1992-02-26 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1992-02-26 19:38 malte
1992-02-26 21:08 ` Chris Siebenmann [this message]
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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