[Swift-devel] problems with external dependencies

[Ben Clifford]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Michael Wilde wrote:

> Passing 2000 outputs from the simuation to the analysis routine causes
> wrapper.sh to be invoked with values of DIRS and/or INF that exceed the max
> allowed command line length (which I think is 128KB on the bgp).
> 
> Its primarily the error causes by this length limit that Im trying to work
> around here.

It might not be too hard to make wrapper.sh take its inputs from a file, 
which would then scale much better. I've certainly thought about it 
before.

Would your app be able to cope ok if wrapper.sh did not have this problem? 
(or would it also have the same command-line length problems?)

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