[patch] Use jar `cat file-list` not gjar -@ stdin extension

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Fri May 30 11:39:53 PDT 2008


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> wrote:
> There was some concern that the command line would have some limit that
> might overflow. But this doesn't seem an issue on modern GNU/Linux (or
> OpenSolaris) systems.

I share that concern.  Although very recent Linux
kernels might have no command line length limit,
today essentially every OS has such a limit,
and I consider it a bug to depend on its magnitude.

Martin



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