From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:51:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stgit: allow spaces in filenames
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507131250060.17536@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.07.13.16.54.18.709929@smurf.noris.de>



On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
>
> Hi, Bryan Larsen wrote:
> 
> > +	r=os.spawnvp(os.P_WAIT, args_l[0], args_l + args[i:min(i+1000, len(args))])
> 
> The max length for argv is 32k IIRC, so 1000 is 28-byte file names.

I think 32k may be the posix-mandated minimum. Linux does 128kB, so 1000 
should likely be ok for most projects.

That said, xargs should do things like that right.

		Linus