Very Computer

Hi,

I was wondering if its possible to tune the kernel value for the size
allocated to shell argument lines under AIX? (I.e. the ARG_MAX
constant which is "guilty" of those "arg list too long" messages).

Other Unix systems provides simple measures for this (SGI IRIX can do
it with ``systune'', and I seem to remember that HPUX can do it
through SAM), but I haven't found a way to do this under AIX (as long
as I don't have the sourcecode, that is..).

Regards,
Morten Eriksen

No, it is not possible to change ARG_MAX.

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