linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/proc: allow larger /proc/<pid>/cmdline output

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Date:	Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:24:48 -0400
From:	Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/proc: allow larger /proc/<pid>/cmdline output

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 01:45:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:11:40 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Just trying to be conservative and keep people from doing anything too
> > > insane, but I didn't really have any particularly good reason beyond that
> > > for capping it. I'll remove the upper bound next iteration.
> > 
> > There is no need for next iteration. Andrew has been ignoring real fix for more
> > than a month now!
> 
> I haven't been ignoring it.  I'm desperately hoping that the patch fairy
> will come up with something which is less large and complex :(

Shudder-inducing though it may be, I do have to say I'm quite happy with
the resulting behavior with Alexey's patch. It's both more
memory-efficient and more user-friendly, despite itself.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@...hat.com

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