From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MAX_ARG_PAGES has no effect?
Date: 01 Sep 2005 01:29:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73psrtr8ho.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050831121144.GA13578@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
>
> 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)
Perhaps it would be a good idea to make it a sysctl. Is there
any reason it should be hardcoded? I cannot think of any.
Ok if someone lowers the sysctl then execve has to handle
the case of the args/environment possibly not fitting anymore,
but that should be easy.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-31 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-31 0:18 MAX_ARG_PAGES has no effect? Nick Matteo
2005-08-31 12:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-31 12:25 ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-08-31 23:29 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-09-01 6:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-01 7:26 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-01 8:30 ` Ingo Molnar
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