Re: Regression: commit da029c11e6b1 broke toybox xargs.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:10 PM, enh <enh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> I actually suspect "just use 128kB" is the actual best option in practice.
>
> for libc's sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) too? i'm fine changing bionic back to
> reporting 128KiB if there's an lkml "Linus says" mail that i can link
> to in the comment. it certainly seems like an overly-conservative
> choice is better than the current situation...

I suspect a 128kB sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) is the sanest bet, simply
because of that "conservative is better than aggressive".

Especially since _technically_ we're still limiting things to that
128kB due to the single-string limit.

              Linus