Argument list too long

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Wed Aug 1 20:12:44 UTC 2007


Jeff Voskamp wrote:
> It's not a word count limit.  It's a character limit. The current
> value of which escapes me at this point.

I think this is defined in /usr/include/linux/limits.h:

#define ARG_MAX       131072    /* # bytes of args + environ for exec() */

(I could be wrong though, corrections from the more knowledgeable are
welcome. :)

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