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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:05:34 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 	* userland issues (what, you thought that limits on the
> command size will go away?)

the space allowed for arguments is not a userland issue, it is a kernel
limit defined by MAX_ARG_PAGES in binfmts.h, so one could tweak it if one
wanted to without breaking any userland.

Regards,
Tigran


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