Tricks to get around it in userspace are a rather fun exercise though :o)
-alan
> At 20:22 on Tue 19/11/02, alan@cotse.net masquerading as 'Alan Willis'
> wrote:
>>
>> Recently I had a user who needed to remove 17k files all at once
>> and
>> received the message 'rm: Argument list too long'. In his case an rm
>> -rf on the directory itself solved his problem, but after a quick web
>> search, it seems that the value of MAX_ARG_PAGES in
>> include/linux/binfmts.h (32) is responsible for this limitation.
>> Could this value possibly be increased safely? I'm curious, is there
>> some other limitation that has been breached in the 2.5 series that
>> would make it safer to increase MAX_ARG_PAGES?
>
> See lkml passim (circa 3:30pm 12 Nov 2002 starting with a message from
> Adam Voigt)
>
>
> --
>
> Jonathan Sambrook
> Software Developer
> Designer Servers
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