Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A75E410.1E5421C3@digitalfocus.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:43:44 -0500 From: Daniel Barclay X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: long command lines References: <3A70B734.A18289E@nuance.com> <3A70C7CB.AB0DA2BE@yahoo.com> <4.3.1.2.20010129110023.022b0468@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > At 10:52 AM 1/29/2001, Daniel Barclay wrote: > >... > >I thought GNU software tried to avoid arbitrary limit like that. Shouldn't > >the only limit be virtual memory? > > > >That is, shouldn't bash keep reallocating (enlarging) its buffer until the > >pattern has been expanding, or until it runs out of memory? > > I'm sure you can find your answer in the source if you're interested. What's up with your attitude? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay Digital Focus Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple