Increasing the maximum length of the argument list.

[inode0]

On 4/2/07, Glenn Meyer <grmeyer at mail.arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> inode0 wrote:
> >
> > Better is subjective, I'm not sure what you are looking for. Possibly
> > a list more in line with the subject matter would be better, maybe the
> > gnu emacs list?
> Just a box on the archives page that allows me to search the archives,
> although I know there's more behind it than that. To me the length of
> the arguments list looks like an OS issue, not an emacs issue. For
> instance, UNIX allows you to increase the maximum. Does Linux? But I'll
> try searching the emacs lists.

I just suggested the emacs list because this issue would surely come
up there a lot.

> >> Third, and the reason I joined this list, is there any way to increase
> >> the limit on the size of the argument list. I need an especially long
> >> list for etags, and the program doesn't create a correct TAGS file when
> >> I pipe the files list through xargs, at least, not one that emacs can
> >> handle.
> >
> > Piping the filenames into etags on stdin is the usual way around this
> > problem I think.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Create-Tags-Table.html

suggests what I suggested - piping the filenames into etags to get
around this issue.

John