Re: PING: fix ARG_MAX

2005-09-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 9/20/2005 10:05 AM: AFAICT, we're not talking about defaults. We're talking about the optimum setting. Your change to xargs doesn't permit me to go beyond 32K. Personally, I'd like to be able to override

Re: PING: fix ARG_MAX

2005-09-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:24:39AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: According to Christopher Faylor on 9/20/2005 10:05 AM: AFAICT, we're not talking about defaults. We're talking about the optimum setting. Your change to xargs doesn't permit me to go beyond 32K. Personally, I'd like to be able to

Re: PING: fix ARG_MAX

2005-09-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:09:55PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Also, the argument brought up on the findutils mailing list was that beyond a certain size, the cost of processing each argument starts to outweigh the benefits of forking fewer tasks, to the point that the difference between a 32k

PING: fix ARG_MAX

2005-09-10 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: Just making sure this patch didn't fall through the cracks... 2005-09-06 Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net * include/limits.h (ARG_MAX): New limit. * sysconf.cc (sysconf): _SC_ARG_MAX: Use it. Even with your recent patches to make cygwin programs