Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX

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To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...>

Cc: aaw <aaw@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <michael.kerrisk@...>, <carlos@...>, Alan Cox <alan@...>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...>

Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX

Date: Friday, February 29, 2008 - 12:05 pm

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
quoted text> 
> 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
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[RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Feb 27, 9:37 am)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 12:05 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Michael Kerrisk, (Fri Feb 29, 12:58 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Peter Zijlstra, (Fri Feb 29, 1:14 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 1:35 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Peter Zijlstra, (Fri Feb 29, 1:55 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Alan Cox, (Fri Feb 29, 2:40 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Michael Kerrisk, (Fri Feb 29, 2:18 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Geoff Clare, (Sat Mar 1, 4:42 am)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 2:39 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Michael Kerrisk, (Fri Feb 29, 3:49 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 4:07 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 5:57 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Carlos O'Donell, (Sat Mar 1, 10:21 am)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Michael Kerrisk, (Fri Feb 29, 4:43 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 5:34 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 2:14 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 1:12 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Peter Zijlstra, (Fri Feb 29, 1:18 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 1:29 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Pavel Machek, (Tue Mar 4, 4:07 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Peter Zijlstra, (Fri Feb 29, 1:42 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 2:12 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Ollie Wild, (Fri Feb 29, 3:01 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Jakub Jelinek, (Fri Feb 29, 3:09 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 3:50 pm)

Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX, Ollie Wild, (Fri Feb 29, 4:03 pm)


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