On Jun 5, 2007, at 18:26 , Stefan O'Rear wrote:
I am just curious - is there a OS, where the argument list is not
limited (like in limits.h under Unix/Posix)?
No, that would require an infinite amount of address space. Even
if you
have exabytes of swap, argv[] has to be all concurrently addressable.
Less pedantically, Linux 2.6 kernels do not arbitrarily restrict
argument lists. (I suspect this comes at a cost, however.)
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