Re: Maximum length of command line arguments

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On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:11:02AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> This is of little practical consequence unless someone really wants to
> pass a 2 MB command line to a program... but as a curiosity, I ran a
> diff of a Koji build log from last year against a build from this year,
> and I noticed something odd in the configure spew.
> 
> Old build log:
> checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1966080
> 
> New build log:
> checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
> 
> Anyone know why this got smaller? It's 1572864 on my F20 machine as
> well.

I don't know the answer to your question, but I found quite a good
summary of all the possible issues with command line argument max
length here:

http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/

Rich.

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