so, i've stumbled over rmmproc's limit in the past (and, like others,
have quietly, manually, done it in chunks instead), but i don't think
i've ever seen a similar limit with "rm". and now i'm wondering, why
not?
Well, if you're a young whippersnapper, you wouldn't have seen that :-)
certainly this works just fine:
Depends on the OS. SunOS 4, that probably would have choked (or maybe it
was Irix that had what seemed to me to be a remarkably small argv limit).
The limit is hardcoded at MAXARGS (1000), and it's probably been
that way for a decade or two; considering the age of the original
MH, it's easy to see how that limit probably seemed like it made
sense back in the day. Note that it only applies when you have an
external rmmproc; if you don't have one there is no limit.
--Ken
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