From: vpereira@...
Date: 2014-10-07T11:36:03+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:65462] [ruby-trunk - Bug #10336] [Open] limit of number of arguments passed to system

Issue #10336 has been reported by Victor Pereira.

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Bug #10336: limit of number of arguments passed to system
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10336

* Author: Victor Pereira
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: core
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.1.1p76 (2014-02-24 revision 45161) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN
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The following code snipped stops to work with argument bigger than 2274:

~~~
files_to_be_p_as_a =  Dir[File.join(".", '**', '*.c')]
files_to_be_p_as_a.size 
# => 43152
system("ls #{files_to_be_p_as_a}") 
# => nil
system("ls #{files_to_be_p_as_a[0..2273]}")
... # list of files
system("ls #{files_to_be_p_as_a[0..2274]}" 
# => nil
~~~

is there any limitation on Kernel system or is it something in my local environment? 




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