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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MAX_ARG_PAGES has no effect?
Date: 01 Sep 2005 01:29:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73psrtr8ho.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050831121144.GA13578@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> 
> MAX_ARG_PAGES should work just fine. I think the 'getconf ARG_MAX' 
> output is hardcoded. (because the kernel does not provide the 
> information dynamically)

Perhaps it would be a good idea to make it a sysctl. Is there 
any reason it should be hardcoded?  I cannot think of any.

Ok if someone lowers the sysctl then execve has to handle
the case of the args/environment possibly not fitting anymore,
but that should be easy.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-31 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-31  0:18 MAX_ARG_PAGES has no effect? Nick Matteo
2005-08-31 12:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-31 12:25   ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-08-31 23:29   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-09-01  6:57     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-01  7:26       ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-01  8:30         ` Ingo Molnar

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