Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:40:59 +0200
From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: variable length argument support (was: [OT] Re: The vi editor
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:07:01 +0200 (CEST)
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> 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.

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	Paolo Ornati
	Linux 2.6.23-rc3-g2a677896-dirty on x86_64
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