Nor sure what this article is trying to convey? Is it about grepping wrong defaults for bash? Is it about mentioning the protagonist as much as often? I've read it twice now, and I feel ignorant.
The environment variables count towards the argument limit. To a casual shell user, this is non-obvious and typical error messages are bad and don't even mention it. They say "Argument list too long" even when the argument list (argv) isn't too long, the environment list (envp) is. So the author went through an investigation to figure out what was happening, and decided to write down her findings. ---- On a personal…
Nice to watch the gears of open source and open ideas turn.