Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!montnaro From: montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Arg list too big Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 91 02:03:46 GMT References: <805@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM> <1991Mar15.094911.13334@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY Lines: 10 In-reply-to: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu's message of 15 Mar 91 09:49:11 GMT We had similar problems on SGIs and Stellars. The culprit in our case was too much in the environment (the makefiles for our object-oriented development system generate lots of make variable), not to many filenames. I don't know if the 10240 byte limit applies to the sum of the filenames and the environment, or to them separately, but in these days of multi-megabyte systems, it seems ludicrous for it to be that small. -- Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)