Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells
Dr Rainer Woitok
rainer.woitok@gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 18:12:00 GMT 2015
Eric,
On Monday, 2015-10-26 10:14:06 -0600, you wrote:
> ...
> So once
> you start a dash shell, that dash shell can start any number of other
> dash shells with no command line length limit other than the memory
> available to your machine.
Assume I terminate Cygserver and any other Cygwin services running, I
then start "ash.exe" by double clicking it in a Windows Explorer window,
from the command line in the "ash.exe" window I start my Ash Shell
script which in turn starts "setup-x86*.exe" with a very long command
line.
Am I interpreting you correctly in assuming that under these circumstan-
ces the maximum length of this command line is 2 * 10**9 ASCII charact-
ers on my box?
This would be just enough I think.
Sincerely,
Rainer
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