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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: 4096 byte limit to /proc/PID/environ ?
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By author:    James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>
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> 
> I'm not worried about that - more the fact that when I do:
> 
> % cat /proc/$$/environ | wc -c
> 4096
> % env | wc -c
> 7329
> 
> /proc/PID/environ is truncated ...
> 

Funny enough, I was looking at this yesterday.  I think there is a
pretty clean solution for it, I just haven't had a chance to attack it
yet.

	-hpa