Rob Landley wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 March 2005 11:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> From: "Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paolo
>> 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Dike
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Increase UML command line size. And fix a crash
>> from passing an overly-long command line to UML.
>>
>> XXX: check that init can handle 128 params and 128 env. var. The
>> original patch set this limit to 256, but it seems me too
>> much. Think!
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---
>
> Called via xargs, I don't believe there's any limit on the command
> line arguments.

There certainly still is. xargs merely passes as many arguments it can
at once, but if necessary, it will run the command multiple times to
do it. Most of the time it doesn't matter if the command is run
multiple times in things like 'xargs grep', but with UML, it most
certainly would.

-- Naked




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