Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT 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 AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: long command lines References: <3A70B734 DOT A18289E AT nuance DOT com> <3A70C7CB DOT AB0DA2BE AT yahoo DOT com> <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20010129110023 DOT 022b0468 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT 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 DOT Barclay AT digitalfocus DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple