Argument list too long.
Mike A. Harris
mharris at redhat.com
Tue Sep 9 11:21:30 UTC 2003
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 05:12:25 +0200 (CEST)
>From: Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>
>To: rhl-devel-list at redhat.com
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>Subject: Argument list too long.
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm wondering if option 4 from the following article
>
> Linux Journal: "Argument list too long": Beyond Arguments and Limitations
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6060
>
>could be done for the Red Hat kernel (or the vanilla kernel) and if not,
>what the objections are.
>
>Linux Journal suggests to increase the MAX_ARG_PAGES from 32 to 64
>pages in include/linux/binfmts.h:
>
> /*
> * MAX_ARG_PAGES defines the number of pages allocated for arguments
> * and envelope for the new program. 32 should suffice, this gives
> * a maximum env+arg of 128kB w/4KB pages!
> */
> #define MAX_ARG_PAGES 32
>
>I'm not in favor to increase it to 64 per se, but at least something
>higher than 32 (as I've already come across this boundary at several
>occassions where the only solution was to work around it in a bad way).
>
>Maybe make it system dependent or even dynamically changeable.
man xargs
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