On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:07:01 +0200 (CEST)
Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> 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.
--
Paolo Ornati
Linux 2.6.23-rc3-g2a677896-dirty on x86_64
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