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

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Message-ID: <46DE6196.3050605@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:58:14 +0100
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Anton Arapov <aarapov@...hat.com>
CC:	James Pearson <james-p@...ing-picture.com>,
	Guy Streeter <guy.streeter@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4096 byte limit to /proc/PID/environ ?

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.

	-hpa
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