Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <michael.kerrisk@googlemail.com>, aaw <aaw@google.com>,
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       carlos@codesourcery.com, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, drepper@redhat.com,
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Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:55:56 +0100
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On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 09:35 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > You fail to mention that <23 will still fault the first time it tries to
> > grow the stack when you set rlimit_stack to 128k and actually supply
> > 128k of env+arg.
> 
> So? That's what rlimit_stack has always meant (and not just on Linux 
> either, afaik). That's not a bug, it's a feature. If the system has a 
> limited stack, it has a limited stack. That's what RLIMIT_STACK means.

Well, I agree with that point. It just that apparently POSIX does not.
According to Michael POSIX does not consider the arg+env array part of
the stack proper.


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