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

[Norman Ramsey <nr@...>]

 > Well, Linux 2.6 itself has a limit of 32K entries in *argv[], which has 
 > always struck me as annoying...
 > 
 > 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...
 >
 > So by all means bump 2048 up to 32K (a handly match for Linux 2.6) but it 
 > doesn't really fix anything.

Indeed not.  But it would be nice for the lossage to be blamed on the OS,
not on Lua :-)


Norman