i stand by this in spite of modern linux's ability to pass 200Mbyte of
argv[]. for one thing not every system that MH can otherwise run on has
this kind of high limit. for another thing no matter how large you make
it there will some day be some crazy person with a folder larger than
that limit.
I'm not disagreeing with you ... just pointing out the reality that we
have a lot of awful stuff under the hood of nmh, and what we fix is limited
by the stuff people are willing to work on.
if we want to allow newlines in filenames we'd have to allow -0 (like
xargs does) to change the format. this would be a burden on all rmmpipe
implementations, unwarranted in my view since someone crazy enough to
put a \n in their MHPATH deserves all the pain we can lay in store for them.
I can't even disagree with that, although the purist in me is put off
by the idea of leaving a hole in the implemenation. But then again, if
you put a newline in your MH folder name I have to wonder what you're
really trying to accomplish.
--Ken
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