Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934040AbXHGAjW (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:39:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933500AbXHGAjM (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:39:12 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:34806 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933504AbXHGAjM (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:39:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version: content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=u7bYdeclkOGQwPdpAPmi2RIoN5xqLONV1mumOEqNQsfJBnXcHVfODPZT890DzYlRM 2Vb6XdTciq7Kcl0100YUw== Message-ID: <65dd6fd50708061738pabd807tb26d38641cc5e7e2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:38:59 -0700 From: "Ollie Wild" To: mtk-manpages@gmx.net Subject: execve manpage changes Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 19 Michael, Per our previous discussion, here are the updates to the execve(2) manpage resulting from the variable length argument support patch in linux-2.6.23-rc1. The execve API is unmodified. However, the following should be noted in the "Notes" section. Prior to linux-2.6.23, the memory used to store the environment and argument list strings was limited to 32 (MAX_ARG_PAGES) pages. On most architectures, the page size is 4kB, leading to a maximum size of 128kB. In linux-2.6.23 and later, most architectures support a size limit derived from the current RLIMIT_STACK - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/