if not files:
return
- filedata = p4CmdList('print %s' % ' '.join(['"%s#%s"' % (f['path'],
- f['rev'])
- for f in files]))
+ # We cannot put all the files on the command line
+ # OS have limitations on the max lenght of arguments
+ # POSIX says it's 4096 bytes, default for Linux seems to be 130 K.
+ # and all OS from the table below seems to be higher than POSIX.
+ # See http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/
+ argmax = min(4000, os.sysconf('SC_ARG_MAX'))
+ chunk = ''
+ filedata = []
+ for i in xrange(len(files)):
+ f = files[i]
+ chunk += '"%s#%s" ' % (f['path'], f['rev'])
+ if len(chunk) > argmax or i == len(files)-1:
+ data = p4CmdList('print %s' % chunk)
+ if "p4ExitCode" in data[0]:
+ die("Problems executing p4. Error: [%d]." % (data[0]['p4ExitCode']));
+ filedata.extend(data)
+ chunk = ''
j = 0;
contents = {}