Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:46:48 +0300 | From | "Alon Bar-Lev" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol |
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On 3/6/07, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> wrote: > +The kernel command line is a null-terminated string. The maximum > +length can be retrieved from the field cmdline_size. Before protocol > +version 2.06, the maximum was 255 characters. A string that is too > +long will be automatically truncated by the kernel.
This is incorrect. Since 2.02, the maximum was null terminated string truncated by kernel.
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