[tpm] sys call length limitation

[Tom Legrady]

How about opening it as a file, and feeding the input a line at a time?
Make it a subroutine or a module, and the pain is localized.


Tom


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Antonio Sun <tpm.ats at spamgourmet.com>wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Antonio Sun wrote:
>
> I.e., I need to pipe the matching string ($1, content between tag HttpBody)
>> to an external program via shell. As you can tell, if the matching
>> content is too big for shell parameter length, my script will fail.
>
>
> Found out that the limitation is actually how much characters one can
> stuff in between ``:
>
>   $ echo "`cat HttpBody`" | wc -c
>   238566
>
>   $ cat HttpBody | perl -e '$s = <>; print length $s; print `echo $s`'
>   238566
>
> I.e., the echo works fine in my shell, but not ok under Perl.
>
> Any way to increase the sys call length limitation, ie the limitation how
> much characters one can stuff in between ``?
>
> Thanks
>
> Antonio
>
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