[vorbis-dev] [fwd] CVS: ogg123 rocks! vcut no so much so... (from: wayfarer42@postmaster.co.uk)

[Jeffrey Bridge]

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 10:55, Adrien Beau wrote:
> Btw, this is in such areas that you see that proprietary
> Unix systems still have an edge. IIRC, the shell on AIX had
> no problem dealing with a 28000 arguments command-line in
> an appropriate amount of time, while bash on Linux went to
> its knees and took an order of magnitude more time to do the
> work.

I believe the kernel (or perhaps bash) has some sort of limitation on
how large the size of all arguments/environment variables can be. I've
seen some ./configure programs check how many bytes can be passed on the
arg list, and it's something like 70 KB. Now, I don't know if this is
necessary for some reason or not, but it's there. IMO, it's better not
to be passing half-a-meg of data around on an argument list anyway :-o

~jeffrey :j

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