> No rain here, it is ARG_MAX - 2048:
> -s size
> Set the maximum number of bytes for the command line length pro-
> vided to utility. The sum of the length of the utility name and
> the arguments passed to utility (including NULL terminators) will
> be less than or equal to this number. The current default value
> for size is ARG_MAX - 2048.
>
> 2K would be a pretty big env, root default std is about 367 bytes.
Ok, I'll stop arguing. I guess I have to agree that you can script
around the problem if you're careful.
FWIW, the above is really ARG_MAX - 4k (the documentation is wrong -
I recently updated xargs.1 in -current) and this seems to be *exactly*
the right threshold. Take a look at the commit message with that
xargs.1 commit...
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