argument number limit

Chris Wagner jwag at moose.asd.sgi.com
Tue Jan 1 07:31:12 AEST 1991


In article <9012182223.AA05751@>, brad at lsr-vax.UUCP (Brad Zoltick - LMO)
writes:
> 
> We are running up against the number-of-arguments limit allowed on
> the command line under the C shell.  Is there a way to increase
> this limit to a much larger value. Shell files that run properly under
> SUNOS4 are failing under IRIX-3.31 with the error
> 
> 		"argument number too large".
> 
> Our researchers routinely analyze directories containing many
> hundreds of data files using shell scripts to process the data.
> 
> Any insight would be appreciated.
> 
> Brad Zoltick
> National Institutes of Health
> 

Yes! it is a system configuration parameter - currently shipped at 10K

the paramter is SYSNCARGS in the file /usr/sysgen/master.d/kernel


Chris Wagner



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