Re: [rox-devel] Send-To problems

[Lucas H. <lu...@di...>]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:05:32 +0100
Stephen Watson <st...@ke...> wrote:

> "Nils Erik Svang=E5rd" <nil...@gm...> wrote:
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> > Hello!
> > I use the Send-To menu item to send files to mplayer.
> > When I try to send more than 1685 files rox-filer complains:
> >=20
> > Failed to execute child process
> > "/home/nisse/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/SendTo/Play Random/AppRun"
> > (Argument list too long)
> >=20
> > Where apprun contains a row executing mplayer.
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> There is a hard limit to the length of the arguments you can send to a
> program, set by the operating system.  I forget what the limit is
> exactly but 1685 file names with an average length of 40 characters
> is about 67K and I doubt the limit would be more than 64K.
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> You'll just have to accept that you can't send that many files to one
> program.
>=20

Perhaps you could change the AppRun script to handle directories aswell.

Although I'm pretty sure something like "mplayer $1/*" would cause
the same error.

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Lucas Hazel <lu...@di...>

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