Re: lua5.1: Lua stack is too small for a script that takes over 2048 arguments

[Duck <duck@...>]

Well, Linux 2.6 itself has a limit of 32K entries in *argv[], which has 
always struck me as annoying...it's not unusual these days to have a 
laptop with 2GB of physical RAM and to have executables which are 10s of 
MB in size, so 128KB and 32K entries for *argv[] seems kinda old 
fashioned...

However, I find the reason I generally want to pass 32KB or more args to a 
program is through aggressive use of globs, for example, a list of 
filenames to scan for viruses.

For this sort of use, I don't particularly care whether the limit is 2KB 
or 32KB -- the issue is that there is an arbitrary limit. (And, as you 
point out, a wildly varying limit depending on your OS flavour -- though I 
see that GNU/Hurd has unlimited command line lengths, so when Hurd is 
finished, which should happen by, say, 1994,, I'll probably switch to it 
:-)

Where I expect a program or script to be used with more than even just a 
few dozen arguments (usually filenames) I invariably give up and either 
make the script accept '@filename' as 'now read arguments out of filename 
to any reasonably enormous number' or (if the script is not a filter) take 
the filename arguments via stdin and the configuration args via the 
command line...

So by all means bump 2048 up to 32K (a handly match for Linux 2.6) but it 
doesn't really fix anything.