Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:29:19 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX |
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > ... and what's the point? We've never had it before, nobody has ever cared, > > and the whole notion is just stupid. Why would we want to limit it? The > > only thing that the kernel *cares* about is the stack size - any other > > size limits are always going to be arbitrary. > > Well, don't think of limiting it, but querying the limit. > > Programs like xargs would need to know how much to stuff into argv > before starting a new invocation.
But they already can't really do that. More importantly, isn't it better to just use the whole stack size then (or just return "stack size / 4" or whatever)?
Linus
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