On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:16 PM, spqr <sritacc...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, I guess this is a fairly stupid question because I can pass everything > to the process as part of the "env" > Maybe a new question is that since I'm talking about "quite a lot of junk," > is there any negative consequence > of passing a really large env to the child process.
Not intrinsically but most (all?) operating systems put some arbitrary upper limit on the environment size. On modern Linux, for example, the maximum length of arguments + environment is usually (but not always) 2 MB. In case of doubt, consult the limitations section of `man execve`. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en