From: "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
Date: 23 Feb 2007 11:12:17 -0800
Date: 2007-02-23T11:12:17-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172257937.908673.97030@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1172249891.912137.64150@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 23, 11:58 am, "Adam Beneschan" <a...@irvine.com> wrote:
> This problem has a simple solution, though... Increase the size of
> the shell buffer used to hold the expansion!!
No, that's incorrect. Many versions of UNIX have an absolute limit on
the total size of the arguments that can be passed to a process about
to execute, and will fail the exec... system calls with an E2BIG error
if that size is exceeded. That's why "xargs" exists.
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2007-02-21 20:43 Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Gautier
2007-02-21 20:59 ` (see below)
2007-02-22 1:13 ` Marc A. Criley
2007-02-22 2:08 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-22 5:59 ` (see below)
2007-02-22 8:16 ` gautier_niouzes
2007-02-22 10:25 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-22 11:02 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-02-24 6:34 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-24 11:46 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-24 14:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-24 16:45 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-24 20:08 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-24 20:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-25 0:39 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-25 16:29 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-24 20:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-25 7:46 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-25 13:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-05 1:07 ` Brian May
2007-03-05 1:39 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-06 3:48 ` Brian May
2007-03-05 12:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-05 13:20 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-06 12:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-06 15:07 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-07 22:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-08 5:07 ` Simon Wright
2007-03-08 9:19 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-08 9:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-08 9:16 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-09 13:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-09 17:11 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-09 18:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-03-09 19:02 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-09 20:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-03-10 10:40 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-11 0:15 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-03-11 7:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-03-11 14:55 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-12 13:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-03-12 14:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-03-12 15:08 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-16 8:06 ` Brian May
2007-03-16 12:53 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-10 2:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-03-10 10:52 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-10 15:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-10 18:11 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-03-10 18:42 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-12 14:25 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-03-12 15:17 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-09 13:41 ` Robert Deininger
2007-03-09 17:15 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-09 18:58 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-03-10 10:27 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-06 15:08 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-03-07 19:21 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-03-07 20:27 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-07 21:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-06 3:07 ` Brian May
2007-02-24 18:28 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-24 13:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-24 16:16 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-25 14:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-03-05 1:03 ` Brian May
2007-03-05 10:34 ` Martin Krischik
2007-03-05 20:46 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-22 11:19 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-02-22 13:49 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-02-22 14:25 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-02-22 15:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-22 15:15 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-02-22 15:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-22 18:26 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-22 19:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-22 20:38 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-23 8:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-25 16:35 ` wildcards with unix shells Martin Krischik
2007-02-22 16:20 ` Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-02-22 18:34 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-22 19:30 ` Niklas Holsti
2007-02-23 1:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-02-23 4:44 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-23 5:06 ` Anders Wirzenius
2007-02-24 16:37 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-25 16:42 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-26 20:51 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-27 7:11 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-27 21:32 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-27 21:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-27 22:53 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-28 13:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-28 14:25 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-26 11:59 ` Anders Wirzenius
2007-02-26 14:46 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-23 8:43 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-23 11:34 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-02-24 13:40 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-25 16:57 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-26 21:27 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-27 7:18 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-23 8:49 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-02-23 9:29 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-22 17:07 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-22 18:40 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-23 10:47 ` Rob Norris
2007-02-23 13:28 ` brian.b.mcguinness
2007-02-23 13:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-23 17:10 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-22 20:12 ` Gautier
2007-02-23 1:15 ` Robert A Duff
2007-02-23 9:25 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-24 1:18 ` typed pipes (was: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards) Björn Persson
2007-02-24 8:16 ` typed pipes Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-24 13:37 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-24 16:33 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-24 20:17 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-25 1:11 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-25 7:03 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-23 14:45 ` Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-24 19:24 ` Robert A Duff
2007-02-25 6:29 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-25 12:21 ` Robert A Duff
2007-02-25 16:22 ` Pascal Obry
2007-02-25 16:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-26 5:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-26 8:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-26 17:11 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-26 17:34 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-27 16:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-27 16:19 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-27 16:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-27 17:56 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-27 20:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-02-26 20:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-27 0:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-02-27 14:52 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-27 20:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-02-27 20:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-25 17:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-23 16:58 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-23 19:12 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2007-02-23 19:26 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-25 17:05 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-24 1:19 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-24 3:46 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-24 11:42 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-25 17:02 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-23 19:04 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-23 19:30 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-23 19:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-23 20:07 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-24 1:18 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-24 19:22 ` Robert A Duff
2007-02-24 20:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-25 7:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-21 21:43 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
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