On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote: >>so, i've stumbled over rmmproc's limit in the past (and, like others, >>have quietly, manually, done it in chunks instead), but i don't think >>i've ever seen a similar limit with "rm". and now i'm wondering, why >>not? > > Well, if you're a young whippersnapper, you wouldn't have seen that :-) > >>certainly this works just fine: > > Depends on the OS. SunOS 4, that probably would have choked (or maybe it > was Irix that had what seemed to me to be a remarkably small argv limit).
Somewhere in the range of SunOS 4.0 to 4.1.1U1 I ran into the problem when I did a wildcard match in a for the time large directory. I know it was on a sun3x kernel architecture box, so I'm pretty sure it is in that range (probably 4.1). _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
