Re: clone: I'm only doing a max of 256 requests

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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:38:42PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Hmph.  I was reading linux-2.6/fs/exec.c::copy_strings(), but I
> do not see any such size limit (other than exceeding the total
> machine memory size, probably reported by alloc_page() failing)
> imposed there.  Am I looking at the wrong place?

well at least the len of argv is limited by ~32K (i386) by: 

bprm->p = PAGE_SIZE*MAX_ARG_PAGES-sizeof(void *);
...
bprm->argc = count(argv, bprm->p / sizeof(void *));

-- 
Vincent Hanquez
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