On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 17:09:50 +0800, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Cameron Simpson wrote: > >On 14Oct2007 14:39, I wrote: > >| Please read scripts carefully if you're going to criticise. Criticism is > >| welcome, if it's valid. > > > >Sorry for my tone. I have a headache and didn't allow for it. > > I'm more concerned that your "facts" aren't. > > It doesn't matter how one creates the commandline, there is a limit on > its size. Here, I'm not concerned about side effects of bad characters > such as & and ;. > > See /usr/include/linux/limits.h for its value. Note that that will be changing with the 2.6.23 kernel included with F8. There will still be a limit, but it will typically be much larger (1/4 of process stack space).
