From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:48:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:48:26 -0400 Received: from web13307.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.175.43]:3859 "HELO web13307.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:48:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20010927154840.74967.qmail@web13307.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:48:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Carl Spalletta Subject: Re: max arguments for exec To: vkire@pixar.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Kiril Vidimce wrote: > Yeah, I know, but we would like to avoid building a custom kernel. If > we do end up going this route, I wonder if there is a limit for > MAX_ARG_PAGES. Any idea? I think 128 pages (512K) would be sufficient > for our needs. kiril, I am guessing that you want to avoid a custom kernel in order that your programs shall be portable. So, I am having a hard time understanding why putting the command line args into a file instead of on the command line, in a way similar to grep and many other programs: "fgrep -F patternfile" would not answer the case. Is there any absolute need to have so many args passed to exec from the command line? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com