RE: Could ARG_MAX be increased?

but this is workaround - isn't it ? 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Cyrille Lefevre
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:47 PM
To: Juha Saarinen; freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased?

"Juha Saarinen" <juhasaarinen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, ARG_MAX is set to:
> 
> $ getconf ARG_MAX
> 65536
>  
> in syslimits.h. This is quite low compared to other OS (SunOS has 1MB
> IIRC, and OpenBSD 3.5 256K) and causes the "argument list too long"
> issues when for instance grep'ing in directories with lots of files.


how about grep -r ou find | xargs grep !

Cyrille Lefevre.
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