Alan Hourihane wrote :
I've noticed there are references to a maximum cmdline length of 128 in the kernel sources, yet I know in bash I can pass much longer cmdlines and things work. Can anyone explain things ?
Hello, Alan.The standard TOS command line is 128 characters long. Because it is too few, "The ARGV protocol" has been used to increase this limit (it has been very well documented - I don't remember where). Basically, the idea is to put the command line arguments into the environment, so the command line can be virtually infinite.
-- Vincent Rivière