Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX

Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29T17:37:16Z

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> You fail to mention that <23 will still fault the first time it tries to
> grow the stack when you set rlimit_stack to 128k and actually supply
> 128k of env+arg.

So? That's what rlimit_stack has always meant (and not just on Linux
either, afaik). That's not a bug, it's a feature. If the system has a
limited stack, it has a limited stack. That's what RLIMIT_STACK means.

Linus