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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers maximum number of arguments Post 302141170 by matrixmadhan on Thursday 18th of October 2007 03:06:07 AM
Old 10-18-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by porter
There are two blocks of variable data passed to a new process...

1. environment variables

2. command line arguments

When "exec" is called the kernel has to hold them somewhere while it loads in the new program.

So it may not be the number of arguments, but the length of all the strings plus some management overhead.

Does that mean if the maximum number of arguments that can be passed is 'x' and the number of environmental variables to a binary is 'y', then the "actual" number of arguments that can be passed is only 'x' - 'y'

I believe, each of the command that is typed in the shell has to obey "fork" and "exec" to execute the command


Thanks for the reply
 

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