Argument list too long.

Rik van Riel riel at redhat.com
Mon Sep 8 03:29:19 UTC 2003


On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:

> Linux Journal suggests to increase the MAX_ARG_PAGES from 32 to 64 
> pages in include/linux/binfmts.h:

... after which you need to recompile lots of your userspace
programs, because they know about the kernel limit and refuse
to call exec(2) when you have more than 32 pages full of
arguments. ;)

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan





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