Re: clone: I'm only doing a max of 256 requests

From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent@snarc.org>
Date: Oct 5, 2005, 22:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20051005222730.GA16593@snarc.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vy857iqzh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:38:42PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Hmph.  I was reading linux-2.6/fs/exec.c::copy_strings(), but I
> do not see any such size limit (other than exceeding the total
> machine memory size, probably reported by alloc_page() failing)
> imposed there.  Am I looking at the wrong place?

well at least the len of argv is limited by ~32K (i386) by:

bprm->p = PAGE_SIZE*MAX_ARG_PAGES-sizeof(void *); ... bprm->argc = count(argv, bprm->p / sizeof(void *));

-- 
Vincent Hanquez