Segmentation fault with ls command

[Greg Rudd <G dot Rudd at isu dot usyd dot edu dot au>]

Hi all

When I try to do an ls * with a directory with 5793 file in it We seem to
get a error message saying
6 [main] -bash 644 cmalloc: cmalloc returned NULL
Segmentation fault 


In Tru64 ( the OS that I am most familiar with ) also gets a similar message
arg list too long in 4.0x. After talking with one of the OS development team
on another mailing list says that there is a limit that is imposed by the
posix standard  But in 5.1.x there is a kernel parameter called
exec_disable_arg_limit in the proc section that enables a process to accept
an unlimited number of args.  Does Caging have a similar feature where by
the maximum number of args that can be passed to a process can be changed.

Thanks in advance -greg


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