Re: execve errno setting on MIPS

[tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:57:17AM +0530, Sadashiiv, Halesh wrote:
> >And it looks like the ARG_MAX limit is bigger than my installed glibc
> >thinks, because it works at least on x86. When I increase the array two
> >2 * ARG_MAX I'll get the wanted E2BIG.
>  
>  Yes, on MIPS we need to increase the ARM_MAX to 2*ARG_MAX to get E2BIG.

I've tested only on x86 and I also needed to use 2 * ARG_MAX. This all
depends on the installed glibc, which provides ARG_MAX and the installed
kernel, which sets the rules independand from glibc. If you look at
fs/exec.c in the kernel source, you see these rules. Current kernels
for example have a limit of 

#define MAX_ARG_STRINGS 0x7FFFFFFF

for the number of strings. Looks like E2BIG is triggered by the space
needed for the strings (I only had a quick look at exec.c).

Thomas.

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