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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:25:13 -0400
From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Matteo <kundor@kundor.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MAX_ARG_PAGES has no effect?
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:11:44PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > I recompiled and installed the kernel, but there's no change (getconf 
> > ARG_MAX still gives 131072.)  What am I missing?
> 
> 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)

Yeah, you get the value of ARG_MAX from <linux/limits.h> that was compiled
in when you compiled glibc.

	Jakub