On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > If you don't feel the limit of 4096 arguments is sufficient please > provide us with an example where that limit is insufficient. mv * /some/where/ (in a directory with many files). Linking thousands of .o files into a large program or putting them in a .a file in a single command. Constructing a make command line with thousands of -o options to mark files as considered to be old (a real case where I ran into the old 128k limit when it was there). There are of course workarounds for these - but "the number of files in the source + build trees of a very large project" seems a better way of judging limits than 4096. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
