Re: ARG_MAX missing from getconf

["Matthew \"mirage335\" Hines" <spamfreemirage335@gmail.com>]

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Ok, excellent, thank you, good to know.

On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 7:44 AM Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:

> On Sep  8 07:36, Matthew "mirage335" Hines via Cygwin wrote:
> > Ok, I guess that makes sense.
> >
> > My worry was some './configure' script determining that the build
> > environment is somehow not 'sane'. At least for the limited set of
> programs
> > that I use under cygwin, I have set up my CI to now watch for changes in
> > which binaries are present. Nothing obviously significant in that history
> > so far.
> >
> > At this point, from comparing with my previous CI results, I am guessing
> > this doesn't affect me, aside from adding an exception to my test case
> for
> > this specifically. Might be better to get closer to the usual Linux
> > behavior I am familiar with, of a much higher, valid, ARG_MAX value.
>
> We just don't have a maximum except an out of resources situation.  A
> standard-conformant application must deal with any sysconf variable
> denoting a limit to return -1, i. e., "no limit".
>
> Corinna
>