On 06/28/2017 04:06 PM, JB via use-livecode wrote:
When using argv it has a character limit. I think it
might be different on different systems but you can
probably use a few thousand characters for each
argument. You can have as many arguments as
memory can handle. Probably thousands. You
should refer to a file for larger data.
It does indeed depend on the OS, but I think the maximum length is for
the total command line, not for individual arguments. At any rate, for
my linux mint system I see an ARG_MAX value of 2097152.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6846263/maximum-length-of-command-line-argument-that-can-be-passed-to-sqlplus-from-lin
Note that there is also a limit to the number of arguments that can be
passed on a commandline, and as a rule of thumb it is *probably*
ARG_MAX/4-1, but if this is something that concerns you, you no doubt
have other things to worry about <g>.
--
Mark Wieder
ahsoftw...@gmail.com
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