[Toybox] [landley/toybox] xargs: exec ... Argument list too long (#40)

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Sep 23 06:14:11 PDT 2017


On 09/21/2017 10:40 AM, enh wrote:
> i should probably have also said (since it was contentious before)
> that i went with the -2048 not because i have a use for it, but
> because it's POSIX, it's what all existing implementations do, it's
> trivial, and it's at least a year (or "never") until i can update the
> toybox on a device if we do ever find someone relying on this safety
> margin.
> 
> (the guy who owns the NDK and has to regularly test on ancient devices
> may thank me for this some day.)

Sorry, my turn to be sick, but I should be able to catch up this weekend...

Rob



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