On Monday, August 29, 2011 06:35:36 PM Dar Scott wrote: > Whereas I'm lazy, I thought I'd ask rather than run a test. > > Is there some limit to the length of the string passed to shell() on any > platform, especially OS X, whether by the engine or the shell-command program > itself. Or even the typical limitations of utilities themselves. I'm not concerned about editor limitations; I'm thinking of a computed value passed to shell(). > > Anybody happen to know? > > Dar
Running getconf ARG_MAX here in BASH under OpenSuse returns 2097152, which seems like pretty many to me. Don't know about Livecode limits, though. HYH, Warren _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
