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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:08 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 059/209] mm: variable length argument support
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
>> From: Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
>>
>> Remove the arg+env limit of MAX_ARG_PAGES by copying the strings directly from
>> the old mm into the new mm.
> 
> Btw, this is just a note to say "thanks". 
> 

Indeed.  This is a very frustrating limitation which has finally been
lifted.

	-hpa