linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG

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Date:	Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:42:21 +0000
From:	Geoff Clare <gwc@...ngroup.org>
To:	Michael Kerrisk <michael.kerrisk@...glemail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] RLIMIT_ARG_MAX

Michael Kerrisk <michael.kerrisk@...glemail.com> wrote, on 29 Feb 2008:
>
> My reading of POSIX.1 (and POSIX doesn't seem very explicit on this 
> point), is that the limits on argv+environ and on stack are decoupled, 
> since POSIX specifies RLIMIT_STACK and sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) and doesn't 
> specify any relationship between the two.

POSIX doesn't specify any relationship between them because (as far
as POSIX is concerned) they are limits on entirely different things.
sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) is a limit on how much arg+env a process can
_pass_ to the exec*() functions.  The RLIMIT_* limits are limits on
the process itself.

-- 
Geoff Clare <g.clare@...ngroup.org>
The Open Group, Thames Tower, Station Road, Reading, RG1 1LX, England
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