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From: "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
Date: 23 Feb 2007 11:12:17 -0800
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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.