4.2 Project: "@file" support

[Gabriel Paubert]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:09:25PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Andi Kleen:
> 
> > Linux has a similar limit which comes from the OS (normally around 32k) 
> > So it would be useful there for extreme cases too.
> 
> IIRC, FreeBSD has a rather low limit, too.  And there were discussions
> about command line length problems in the GCC build process on VMS.

For the record, the @file technique is a pretty standard way of
providing long command lines under VMS since the late seventies
or so. Many of our link scripts use it.

However, I suspect that the @file parsing only happens for
commands known to DCL, not for "foreign" commands.

	Gabriel