Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl dot de>]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 12:31:34 +0200, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> > I'm not sure what you're saying.  The limitation on command-line
> > length can be in either the shell, or the OS.  In Windows 2000, the
> > limitation comes primarily from the Windows command shell.
> 
> Linux has a similar limit which comes from the OS (normally around 32k) 
> So it would be useful there for extreme cases too.

Linux uses 32 pages, which results in 128KB on 4K architecture (eg.
i386, m68k, sparc32, ...) or 256KB on 8K architectures (eg. Alpha,
UltraSparc, ...).

MfG, JBG

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