Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933291AbYB2QGX (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:06:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759866AbYB2QGN (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:06:13 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.13]:57915 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758687AbYB2QGM (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:06:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:05:48 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Peter Zijlstra cc: aaw , Andrew Morton , michael.kerrisk@gmail.com, carlos@codesourcery.com, Alan Cox , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX In-Reply-To: <1204119455.6242.403.camel@lappy> Message-ID: References: <1204119455.6242.403.camel@lappy> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 629 Lines: 18 On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Currently these arrays are considered part of the stack, and > RLIMIT_STACK includes them. However POSIX does not specify it must be > so. What's the real advantage of this? I'm not seeing it. Just an extra complexity "niceness" that nobody can rely on anyway since it's not even specified, and older kernels won't do it. Linus -- 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/