Re: 4096 byte limit to /proc/PID/environ ?

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Wed Sep 05 2007 - 13:23:32 EST


On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 06:00:57PM +0100, James Pearson wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >Anton Arapov wrote:
> >
> >> Hey guys, the future of this patch is important for me. What do you
> >>think, has this patch any chances to be committed to upstream?
> >>
> >>James Pearson <james-p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >>>H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >>>There isn't that much that is duplicated - and there are also bits of
> >>>the /proc/PID/mem code that are not needed in this case, so I'm not
> >>>really sure if it is worth doing.
> >>>
> >>>I did submit a patch a few months ago - see:
> >>>
> >>><http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117862109623007&w=2>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Looks reasonable to me, except for the one overlong line.
> >
>
> OK, here is the patch (without the long line) against 2.6.23-rc5 - what
> else needs to be done to get it committed?

Remove duplicate ptrace_may_attach() checks, unecessary (), {} and
spaces before pointer names -- char *buf.
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