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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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        "Marcelo W. Tosatti" <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: execve() fails to report errors
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Hi!

> > Take this trivial .c program. Obviously correct.
> > 
> > 
> > struct foo {
> >         char fill[1*1024*1024*1024];
> > };
> > 
> > struct foo a;
> > 
> > void
> > main(void)
> > {
> > }
> > 
> > Compile. Run. Segfault.
> > 
> > Whose fault? Kernels; it fails to corectly report not enough address
> > space.
> 
> I think the bug has to be found earlier on up the food chain.
> If you do:

Well, nothing earlier can know if there  will be enough address space
at runtime. (It depends on kernel config .. 3GB vs 2GB ...)
								Pavel

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