From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC and too long command lines Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:02:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83hb6fva64.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4E2821C0.5090409@dogan.se> <4E2834B1.9060508@dogan.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311267790 6953 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2011 17:03:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:03:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Deniz Dogan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 21 19:03:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QjweM-0005BH-Nv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:03:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60302 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjweL-00039x-RS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60681) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjweJ-00039s-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:03:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjweI-0007ws-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:02:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:62491) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjweI-0007we-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:02:58 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LOP002000K03400@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:02:56 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.133.66]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LOP000J80OVRWH0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:02:56 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4E2834B1.9060508@dogan.se> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142182 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:16:17 +0200 > From: Deniz Dogan > > Do you happen to know of any reliable way to determine the maximum > command line length of the user system? There isn't any, AFAIK. However, anything longer than 32K bytes will fail with 100% certainty. Please make a prominent note to revisit this code once we move to Unicode APIs, though, because the limitations there are different. TIA