From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756336AbXIEH6s (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 03:58:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755789AbXIEH6m (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 03:58:42 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52846 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755772AbXIEH6l (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 03:58:41 -0400 Message-ID: <46DE6196.3050605@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:58:14 +0100 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Arapov CC: James Pearson , Guy Streeter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 4096 byte limit to /proc/PID/environ ? References: <4474B7DB.8000304@moving-picture.com> <200605242029.k4OKTn9C031700@terminus.zytor.com> <447EF58C.6000605@moving-picture.com> <52dd17640708150954q798d137cn1b07739785917c5b@mail.gmail.com> <46C33700.1060605@zytor.com> <46D6CBED.4040301@moving-picture.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Anton Arapov wrote: > Hey guys, the future of this patch is important for me. What do you think, has this patch any chances to be committed to upstream? > > James Pearson writes: >> H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> There isn't that much that is duplicated - and there are also bits of >> the /proc/PID/mem code that are not needed in this case, so I'm not >> really sure if it is worth doing. >> >> I did submit a patch a few months ago - see: >> >> > Looks reasonable to me, except for the one overlong line. -hpa