From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e219d94b946dfc26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.cw.net!cw.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.de!news.net.uni-c.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Message-ID: <2181439.KtvA67YG5P@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:05:49 +0100 References: <45dcaed8_6@news.bluewin.ch> <1172132169.423514.271890@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <1172249891.912137.64150@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1172257937.908673.97030@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1172258802.581808.189020@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.73.230.248 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=ZR?mcWc3=1@k`8jVVeUFdJYSB=nbEKnkKebg1>^?UCAJS5daR30PdPEV:_8RJBabHMg9KO4?]BWOK>89A_J0@WOLALBaa:^Z0iD X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9532 Date: 2007-02-25T18:05:49+01:00 List-Id: Adam Beneschan wrote: > On Feb 23, 11:12 am, "Hyman Rosen" wrote: >> On Feb 23, 11:58 am, "Adam Beneschan" 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. > > No, what I meant is that they (the OS developers) increase this > absolute limit in the next version of Unix. That's been my > experience. Some time ago, I found that I couldn't use commands that > operate on N files in a certain directory. Later, we'd get a new > version of the OS, and I found that I could now use those commands I > couldn't use before---but I couldn't use commands that operate on 4N > files, or 5N or whatever---I don't know the exact factor. And this > pattern has repeated itself several times. And it's still the same. > I can now include more files than I ever have before, but the number > still isn't infinite and still isn't large enough sometimes. Next time you use ./configure pipe and grep the output for "commandline". Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com