Re: MAX_ARG_PAGES has no effect?

[Ingo Molnar]

* Nick Matteo <kundor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The other day I was running a grep on a big directory tree and got a 
> "Argument list too long" error.  Since I'd like to have this work 
> without messing with find and xargs each time, I went into 
> include/linux/binfmts.h and changed
> 
> #define MAX_ARG_PAGES 32
> 
> to
> 
> #define MAX_ARG_PAGES 64
> 
> I recompiled and installed the kernel, but there's no change (getconf 
> ARG_MAX still gives 131072.)  What am I missing?

MAX_ARG_PAGES should work just fine. I think the 'getconf ARG_MAX' 
output is hardcoded. (because the kernel does not provide the 
information dynamically)

	Ingo
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