Could ARG_MAX be increased?

[Dimitry Andric]

On 2004-09-24 at 15:45:23 Daniel O'Connor wrote:

>> This and xargs -0 for the cases where filenames can contain whitespace
>> works like a charm anywhere, anytime...

> It's only a pitty that you can have newlines in filenames :)

That shouldn't matter, since the -0 argument to xargs tells it to
expect NUL characters *instead* of spaces or newlines.  As long as NUL
characters aren't allowed in filenames, it should work. :)

Note that there's still a chance that the program actually called by
xargs doesn't handle newlines or other weird characters in filenames
properly, though...
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