4.2 Project: "@file" support

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:50:32PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
> I've created a new 4.2 Project page for "response files", which is
> what Microsoft calls files that contain command-line options.
> Conventionally, if you pass "@file" as an argument to a program, the
> file is read, and the contents are treated as command-line options.


Huh?  That should certainly be a feature of the shell, not the OS.

> On systems with small command-line buffers, this is a must-have
> feature.

Do you really want every application to work around a broken propritary
system?  Looks like gcc is really heading down the wrong way..