Re: [Nmh-workers] rmmproc Not Used for Lots of Messages; refile Copies.

[Howard Bampton]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> 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).