[hackers] [sbase] Double NARGS || sin

From: <git_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:01:38 +0100

commit 1bc2296bac00f7dd0ffc41494896da7a2b1689cb
Author: sin <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Thu Jan 16 10:56:13 2014 +0000

    Double NARGS
    
    I just ran a simple one-liner[1] to find the average filepath
    length on my system (absolute paths) and that came up with a value
    ~90 characters. Assume this is out by a factor of two, we still
    have potentially 5000 more arguments that we can put into the buffer.
    
    Surely one might run xargs(1) on something that is not a filename.
    We just choose to accomodate the common use-case as much as possible.
    
    [1] find / 2>/dev/null | awk '{print length($0)}' \
            | awk '{a+=$1}END{print "average filepath length: ",a/NR}'

diff --git a/xargs.c b/xargs.c
index 59028f1..b70c158 100644
--- a/xargs.c
+++ b/xargs.c
_AT_@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #include "util.h"
 
 enum {
- NARGS = 5000
+ NARGS = 10000
 };
 
 static int inputc(void);
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