Re: tar

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On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 14:28 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 05:11:55PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 07:54 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote:
> ...
> > 
> > > Your "multiple groups" warning below still applies, but on modern
> > > systems this is quite a large limit. Run "getconf ARG_MAX" to see
> > > the
> > > limit on your system.
> > 
> > That does work, but I can find no reference to getconf in the
> > Fedora
> > docs even though the command is part of glibc-common. It would be
> > nice
> > to know what other parameters it can tell me about.
> > 
> > poc
> 
> No man page either.  And "getconf --help" is incomplete.
> Try running getconf with np args.
> 
> $ getconf
> Usage: getconf [-v specification] variable_name [pathname]
>         getconf -a [pathname]
> 
> Assuming that "-a" is "all",
> 
> $ getconf -a | wc -l
> 320

$ getconf -a
LINK_MAX                           127
...

$ getconf LINK_MAX
Usage: getconf [-v specification] variable_name [pathname]
       getconf -a [pathname]

So documentation is not only missing but necessary.

poc
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