From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!Dave-Yost Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Arguments too long for too long Article-I.D.: fortune.817 Posted: Wed Mar 2 18:24:41 1983 Received: Tue Mar 8 05:53:24 1983 Attention kernel hackers: It is high time we did away with the `Arguments too long' nonsense. Instead of preallocating 5K of swap space for the args and environment variables, exece should allocate one block at a time, and use the last word of each block to chain to the next. I haven't done this yet, but I'm sure it will work and be a win. Dave Yost