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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:55:56 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Adam Voigt <adam@cryptocomm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File Limit in Kernel?
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> > cp -f * /usr/local/www/images
> 
> Kind of. The * is expanded by the shell. The kernel limits the max
> length of program arguments, which is biting you here. In theory you
> could increase the MAX_ARG_PAGES #define in linux/binfmts.h and
> recompile. No guarantee that it won't have any bad side effects
> though. The default is rather low, it should be probably increased 
> (I also regularly run into this)

Yes, you can do this.  I used to do it with 2.0 kernels, because our
"make" command lines were very lock, and you couldn't use files to
hold the list of make-generated names because even "echo
$(LIST_OF_FILES) > list" hit this limit.

Ages ago somebody promised to fix this limitation :)

-- Jamie
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