Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:40:59 +0200 | From | Paolo Ornati <> | Subject | Re: variable length argument support (was: [OT] Re: The vi editor causes brain damage) |
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:07:01 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote:
> > Remove the arg+env limit of MAX_ARG_PAGES by copying the strings > > directly from the old mm into the new mm. > > Me wonders. Will that make the "checking for maximum length of command line > arguments" from autotools run forever since execve() will not fail anymore?
Since I'm running Gentoo and do many compiles I can tell that it works :)
If I remeber correctly it was discussed on LKML and turend out that that check is done starting with a "max" len and going down rather than starting low and going up.
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