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Message-ID: <18161.27621.630048.643513@alkaid.it.uu.se>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:35:17 +0200
From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>, james-p@...ing-picture.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, aarapov@...hat.com,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] Don't truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 characters
H. Peter Anvin writes:
> Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:35:29 +0100, James Pearson wrote:
> >> /proc/PID/environ currently truncates at 4096 characters, patch based on
> >> the /proc/PID/mem code.
> >
> > Does /proc/PID/mem even work? If I do `strace cat /proc/PID/mem > /dev/null'
> > for a known good PID, the first read() from /proc/PID/mem fails with ESRCH,
>
> Of course it does. Address zero isn't typically mapped.
Indeed. My bad :-(
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