[Esd-l] Detecting env size limits

Floyd Pierce floydp at boxusa.com
Fri May 31 16:51:03 PDT 2002


Only thing I can find on AIX is /usr/include/sys/limits.h:
*********************************************************
/*
  * Max length of arguments for exec() in bytes, including environ data, >= 
4096.
  */
#define ARG_MAX         24576
*********************************************************

At 03:47 PM 5/31/2002 -0700, John D. Hardin wrote:
>Does anybody know of a quick way to detect the env+commandline size
>limit programmatically on those OSes which enforce such a limit?
>
>Thx.
>
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