Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/bmake/files
To: None <pkgsrc-changes@NetBSD.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 03/15/2007 20:32:12
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:41:22AM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:
> Log Message:
> On IRIX, the command line is limited to about 20000 characters. The new
> function Job_Execv executes a shell command line, and if that fails due
> to an overly long command line, the shell command is written into a
> temporary file, which is then executed.

Which problem is this supposed to fix in detail? This feels very wrong
and sounds like adding a lot of overhead and I don't think this is
warranted.

Joerg