Arg list too big

[Chris Torek]

In article <MONTNARO.91Mar18210346 at spyder.crd.ge.com>
montanaro at crdgw1.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) writes:
>I don't know if the 10240 byte limit applies to the sum of the filenames and
>the environment, or to them separately,

It applies to the sum.  Note that the 1024 pointers / 10240 bytes limit
was doubled (2048/20480) in 4.3BSD or 4.3tahoe, but is still wrong.

>but in these days of multi-megabyte systems, it seems ludicrous for it
>to be that small.

Indeed.  It *will* go away, at some point.  Just yesterday I had a little
friendly chat about the current kern_exec.c.... (`why are you carrying
that baseball bat?') :-)
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