From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:47:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git-cvsexportcommit fails for huge commits
Message-ID: <200712141447.05039.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071214091546.GA20907@coredump.intra.peff.net>

fredag 14 december 2007 skrev Jeff King:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:45:54PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > So it seems that we could probably go with something more like 64K, and
> > then only truly pathological cases should trigger the behavior.
> 
> So here is a cleaned up patch. It bumps the maximum size to 64kB, adds
> scalar support (nobody uses it, but it makes sense for the interface to
> match that of safe_pipe_capture -- I am even tempted to just replace
> safe_pipe_capture entirely and convert the few other callers), and
> cleans up the unused safe_pipe_capture_blob.

Wouldn't using the POSIX::ARG_MAX constant work?

-- robin