On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:20:34 PDT, Marc Perkel said: > Let me give you and example of the difference between > Linux open source world brain damaged thinking and > what it's like out here in the real world. > > Go to a directory with 10k files and type: > > rm * > > What do you get? > > /bin/rm: Argument list too long Given that you don't even understand that this message is issued by the *shell* and not /bin/rm, and *why* it issues that sort of error message when an argument string expands to be bigger than MAX_ARGV, and the fact that there are extant patches to increase that to essentially any reasonable size, why should we listen to you when you proclaim that you have any sort of enlightenment about systems design?
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