[ILUG] Disadvantages of find -exec?

Josh Glover jmglov at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 17:26:54 GMT 2009


2009/1/13 Andrew McGill <list2008 at lunch.za.net>:

> Actually, this is a kernel limit.  There is a (historical?) limit of 32K for
> the environment and the command line parameters, but that seems to have been
> bumped up to 128K.

Interesting. That makes perfect sense to me, having spent one looooong
night implementing the exec() system call in NachOS back in uni. :)

-- 
Cheers,
Josh



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