Re: [FAQ] ARG_MAX and POSIX

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:06:53PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Isn't the Hurd also one of the systems that does not have an ARG_MAX
> limit?

Correct.

#v+
$ uname -a
GNU flubber 0.3 GNU-Mach 1.3.99/Hurd-0.3 i686-AT386 GNU
$ getconf ARG_MAX
undefined
#v-

[glibc]/manual/process.texi
#v+
[...]
@item E2BIG
The combined size of the new program's argument list and environment
list is larger than @code{ARG_MAX} bytes.  The GNU system has no
specific limit on the argument list size, so this error code cannot
result, but you may get @code{ENOMEM} instead if the arguments are too
big for available memory.
[...]
#v-


Regards,
 Thomas

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