Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 18:11:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Possible bash issue
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On Fri, 18 May 2001, Mark E. wrote:

> > So is this likely to be a bug in bash, or a libc problem (my
> > bash is linked against stock 2.03)?
> 
> I made the example stand-alone (by providing a script that performs the same 
> function as --fallback-echo) and I couldn't reproduce the problem. I changed 
> to a previous bash 2.04 and also got the same answer. bash 2.05 also gives 
> the same answer. I added a statement to output the i variable and it stops at 
> 16 every time

What does this result (the loop stops at 16) mean in the terms of the max 
command-line length?