[m-rev.] for review: use xargs in mmake

Zoltan Somogyi zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri Feb 15 17:44:49 AEDT 2002


On 15-Feb-2002, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > I don't see how that will solve the problem -- won't you just overflow
> > the command line size limit for `echo' rather than for `cat'?
> >
> That is what I thought, but it works on cygwin which is the system where I
> had the problem.

That is almost certainly because echo is a built into sh, which makes the
command line size limit irrelevant.

Zoltan.
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