Re: MAX_ARG_PAGES has no effect?

From: Jakub Jelinek
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 07:26:26 EST


On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:11:44PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > I recompiled and installed the kernel, but there's no change (getconf
> > ARG_MAX still gives 131072.) What am I missing?
>
> MAX_ARG_PAGES should work just fine. I think the 'getconf ARG_MAX'
> output is hardcoded. (because the kernel does not provide the
> information dynamically)

Yeah, you get the value of ARG_MAX from <linux/limits.h> that was compiled
in when you compiled glibc.

Jakub
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