Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761985AbXJDW1u (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:27:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760195AbXJDW1n (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:27:43 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:36803 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760187AbXJDW1n (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:27:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18181.26846.253191.684845@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:27:42 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer , Ollie Wild , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES In-Reply-To: References: <20071004204443.GA28483@bigip.bigip.mine.nu> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 607 Lines: 17 Linus Torvalds writes: > Well, since others definitely don't see this, including me, and I can do > things like 62MB exec arrays: > > [torvalds@woody linux]$ echo $(find /home/torvalds/) | wc > 1 883304 63000962 That wouldn't actually do an exec, assuming you're using bash, since echo is a shell builtin in bash. You'd need to do /bin/echo. Paul. - 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/