[LCP]Awk query ?

[Erik Mouw]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:24:36PM -0500, Keith Schincke wrote:
> POSIX has a defination of the max args as 4096 (_POSIX_ARG_MAX in 
> bits/posix1_lim.h for me)
> 
> Linux has a ARG_MAX of 131072 (linux/limits.h)

That's the maximum number of arguments. The maximum filesize with a
pretty recent kernel and glibc is 2^64 or 2^63 (16 or 8 exabyte) in
linux. The maximum process size on an x86 machine is about 3.5GB
depending on how you configure your kernel. If you want more, you need
a 64 bit system.


Erik

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