os.system limitations on Windows NT

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Tue Nov 7 14:51:48 EST 2000


06 Nov 2000 22:58:25 +0100, Johannes Nix <jnix at rioverde.cafeconleche.de> pisze:

> There are limits... but it is hard to hit them:
> 
> echo  `find /` | wc
> [ ... ]
>       1  209894 9141283
> 
> (about 14 MB commandline in swap....)

echo is a builtin in most shells. External programs have a smaller
limit for command line size under Linux.

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