On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 5:53 PM Michael Green <gr...@strato.de> wrote:
> The included short script when run with the following command results > in execve "E2BIG (Argument list too long) errors". > > * The number of arguments can be tuned down to "seq 1 23694" and it > still occurs, but any lower and it disappears. > That sounds a lot like the 128 kB hard limit Linux puts on the size of a single argument to exec. (I know it counts for command line arguments, I expect it also counts for env variables. They're passed in pretty much the same way anyway.) seq 1 23694 | wc gives 131058, just a bit less than 131072. Add the variable name and it goes over. Workaround: use another OS, or pass big data like that in files.
