On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 08:19:18PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 14:28 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 05:11:55PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 07:54 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote:
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Your "multiple groups" warning below still applies, but on modern systems this is quite a large limit. Run "getconf ARG_MAX" to see the limit on your system.
That does work, but I can find no reference to getconf in the Fedora docs even though the command is part of glibc-common. It would be nice to know what other parameters it can tell me about.
poc
No man page either. And "getconf --help" is incomplete. Try running getconf with np args.
$ getconf Usage: getconf [-v specification] variable_name [pathname] getconf -a [pathname]
Assuming that "-a" is "all",
$ getconf -a | wc -l 320
$ getconf -a LINK_MAX 127 ...
$ getconf LINK_MAX Usage: getconf [-v specification] variable_name [pathname] getconf -a [pathname]
So documentation is not only missing but necessary.
For sure. I do have getconf man pages on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 22.04. Very different pages!
I'd also like to see some docs on the meanings of the variables. For example, is ARG_MAX the maximum NUMBER of args or the maximum total length? I assume the former.
Probably need to read some source header files to be sure.