Dave-Yost (03/03/83)
Attention kernel hackers: It is high time we did away with the `Arguments too long' nonsense. Instead of preallocating 5K of swap space for the args and environment variables, exece should allocate one block at a time, and use the last word of each block to chain to the next. I haven't done this yet, but I'm sure it will work and be a win. Dave Yost
mark (03/10/83)
#R:fortune:-81700:zinfandel:12400018:000:236 zinfandel!mark Mar 8 20:55:00 1983 It sounds reasonable. I know there are others out there who remember the 512 byte limitation in V6; that was really a pain. I haven't been bit by the 5120 byte limit in V7/III/4.1/XXX yet. Mark Wittenberg ...!decvax!sytek!zehntel!mark
thomas (03/11/83)
We just had a file system problem (caused by a scrogged dump tape) where we had to restore about 800 files. Naturally, the argument list we wanted to give to restor was about 45000 bytes. So, we increased NCARGS to 65k bytes and recompiled the system. First thing we found out was that csh "knew better" and had its own definition of NCARGS (it didn't even include param.h). However, sh didn't mind. We've been running that system since with no adverse effects. =Spencer