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

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Oct 5, 2005, 22:48 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0510051547090.31407@g5.osdl.org>
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On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 
> 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?
Look for "MAX_ARG_PAGES".

Ie the limit is about 128kB by default (32 pages). Note that that includes not just arguments, but environment.

		Linus
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  1. Andy IsaacsonOct 5, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2005
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  4. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2005
  5. Vincent HanquezOct 5, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsOct 5, 2005
  7. upload-pack: Do not choke on too many heads request.Junio C Hamano, Oct 5, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsOct 5, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2005
  10. Alex RiesenOct 6, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsOct 6, 2005
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