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Re: [Nmh-workers] Artificial argv limits.
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Artificial argv limits. |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:00:13 -0500 |
>The result is that if an MH command runs up against the machines argv
>limit, it will fail. If that's a problem for the user, they can use
>xargs(1). The only additional work we should be doing is to ensure all
>the MH user commands are xargs friendly, and I am pretty sure that's
>already the case.
The problem is that the particular thing we're talking about, rmmproc,
is NOT xargs friendly, because the "interface" is "run command with
filenames as arguments".
--Ken