linux-kernel - Re: 4096 byte limit to /proc/PID/environ ?

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Message-ID: <20070905172252.GA2104@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>
Date:	Wed, 5 Sep 2007 21:22:52 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	James Pearson <james-p@...ing-picture.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Anton Arapov <aarapov@...hat.com>,
	Guy Streeter <guy.streeter@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4096 byte limit to /proc/PID/environ ?

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 06:00:57PM +0100, James Pearson wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >Anton Arapov wrote:
> >
> >>  Hey guys, the future of this patch is important for me. What do you 
> >>think, has this patch any chances to be committed to upstream?
> >>
> >>James Pearson <james-p@...ing-picture.com> writes:
> >>
> >>>H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >>>There isn't that much that is duplicated - and there are also bits of
> >>>the /proc/PID/mem code that are not needed in this case, so I'm not
> >>>really sure if it is worth doing.
> >>>
> >>>I did submit a patch a few months ago - see:
> >>>
> >>><http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117862109623007&w=2>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Looks reasonable to me, except for the one overlong line.
> >
> 
> OK, here is the patch (without the long line) against 2.6.23-rc5 - what 
> else needs to be done to get it committed?

Remove duplicate ptrace_may_attach() checks, unecessary (), {} and
spaces before pointer names -- char *buf.
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