Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> I _really_ don't want to trust the ability of shell to deal with long
> command lines. I also don't like the failure modes with history expansion
> causing OOM, etc.
>
> AFAICS right now we hit the kernel limit first, but I really doubt that
> raising said limit is a good idea.
>
Arbitrary limits are generally bad. Yes, using a very long command line
is usually a bad idea, but there are cases for which it is the only
reasonable way to do something. Categorically blocking them is not a
good idea either.
> xargs is there for purpose...
Well, yes; using xargs is a good idea, not the least because it enables
some parallelism that wouldn't otherwise be there.
-hpa
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