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In <1994Feb14.181931.12695@beaver.cs.washington.edu> drupp@cs.washington.edu (Douglas Rupp) writes:

>I installed bash (Bourne Again SHell) on my ODT 3.0 (Sco Unix 3.2v4.2) system
>on the suggestion that it would get rid of my "arg list too long" errors
>when doing simple commands like ls, mv, cp, rm, etc.  However it didn't.
>Where is this coming from?  Is there some parameter I can increase when
>building bash?  Is it the command itself that has the limitation?  Is it
>the system exec call?  Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.

I have access to both a UnixWare and a SCO system.

I know that under UnixWare, there is a kernel parameter named ARG_MAX
that is the size of the total parameter area (argv+envp in c terms) for
new proceses.  This is the parameter that controls the maximum argument
list/environment list for exec system calls.

I have looked in the SCO kernel parameters, but I have not been able to
find a similar parameter.  Looks like you (and I) are out of luck

JC

ps: please let me know if you do get a more positive answer!
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