Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:35:17 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX |
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > You fail to mention that <23 will still fault the first time it tries to > grow the stack when you set rlimit_stack to 128k and actually supply > 128k of env+arg.
So? That's what rlimit_stack has always meant (and not just on Linux either, afaik). That's not a bug, it's a feature. If the system has a limited stack, it has a limited stack. That's what RLIMIT_STACK means.
Linus
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