From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755621AbXIFJYS (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:24:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753475AbXIFJYG (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:24:06 -0400 Received: from mpc-26.sohonet.co.uk ([193.203.82.251]:47186 "EHLO moving-picture.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753695AbXIFJYE (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:24:04 -0400 Message-ID: <46DFC711.6090100@moving-picture.com> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:23:29 +0100 From: James Pearson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Anton Arapov , 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> <46DE6196.3050605@zytor.com> <46DEE0C9.1000402@moving-picture.com> <20070905101804.eafd0da4.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070905101804.eafd0da4.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Disclaimer: This email and any attachments are confidential, may be legally X-Disclaimer: privileged and intended solely for the use of addressee. If you X-Disclaimer: are not the intended recipient of this message, any disclosure, X-Disclaimer: copying, distribution or any action taken in reliance on it is X-Disclaimer: strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received X-Disclaimer: this message in error, please notify the sender and delete all X-Disclaimer: copies from your system. X-Disclaimer: X-Disclaimer: Email may be susceptible to data corruption, interception and X-Disclaimer: unauthorised amendment, and we do not accept liability for any X-Disclaimer: such corruption, interception or amendment or the consequences X-Disclaimer: thereof. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Randy Dunlap wrote: >> >>OK, here is the patch (without the long line) against 2.6.23-rc5 - what >>else needs to be done to get it committed? > > > Hi, > > a. It needs a changelog that describes the problem and the patch. > b. It needs to apply cleanly to a current kernel. > (It does not apply cleanly now due to some odd line breaks [see #1 > below.) > c. It needs to use tabs instead of spaces. That will probably help > on item b as well. > > linux-2.6.23-rc5> dryrun < ~/fs-proc-read-sizes.patch > 4 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/proc/base.c.rej I think a 'cut-n-paste' to my mail app mangled the patch - I'll re-submit it 'cleanly' ... Thanks James Pearson