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Date:   Tue, 10 Oct 2023 23:41:53 -0400
From:   Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
To:     Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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Subject: [PATCH] execve.2: execve also returns E2BIG if a string is too long
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Document that if a command line or environment string is too long (> MAX_ARG_STRLEN), execve will also return E2BIG.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
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 man2/execve.2 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index 0d9582492ad1..c1a359d01872 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ The total number of bytes in the environment
 .RI ( envp )
 and argument list
 .RI ( argv )
-is too large.
+is too large, or an argument or environment string is too long.
 .TP
 .B EACCES
 Search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix of
-- 
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