long command lines

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:43:44PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>"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?

What, specifically, are you objecting to?  The suggestion that you could
figure this out for yourself by looking at the sources?

Or were you assuming that Larry knew the answer and was selfishly withholding
information?

cgf

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