4.2 Project: "@file" support

[Robert Dewar]

Andi Kleen 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.

Not so extreme, we have seen people run into this problem on
GNU/Linux systems fairly often. It seems defective design to
me for any OS to have such silly limits, but the fact is that many do!