Package: dash Version: 0.5.7-4+b1 Severity: important $ getconf ARG_MAX 2097152 $ seq 30000 | wc -c 168894 $ /bin/true "`seq 30000`" sh: 3: /bin/true: Argument list too long $ /bin/true sh: 4: getconf: Argument list too long $
With a limit of 2 MB, I should have never got this error. This is a serious limitation of dash, which prevents one from opening not very large data with Firefox, where the "data:" URI is the recommended solution. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages dash depends on: ii debianutils 4.5.1 ii dpkg 1.18.1 ii libc6 2.19-18 dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * dash/sh: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
