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

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, 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?

Look for "MAX_ARG_PAGES".

Ie the limit is about 128kB by default (32 pages). Note that that includes 
not just arguments, but environment.

		Linus
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