Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX

[Linus Torvalds]

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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