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From: "Daisuke Aoyama" <jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: "Wayne Bergeron" <bergeron AT hiwaay DOT net>, "DJGPP ML" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Long argument list
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 23:23:17 +0900
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> Is the response file always used, or only when the arguments are longer
> than the transfer buffer? 

When the arguments are longer. Exactly speaking, bash uses it when
spawn() stores E2BIG in errno.

Daisuke Aoyama
jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp

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