Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX

Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29T16:06:23Z

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Currently these arrays are considered part of the stack, and
> RLIMIT_STACK includes them. However POSIX does not specify it must be
> so.

What's the real advantage of this? I'm not seeing it. Just an extra
complexity "niceness" that nobody can rely on anyway since it's not even
specified, and older kernels won't do it.

Linus