Re: clone: I'm only doing a max of 256 requests

[Junio C Hamano]

Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes:

> 1. As a stop gap measure, so that your Linux kernel work can
>    continue, please bump MAX_NEEDS definition in upload-pack.c
>    from 256 to a bit higher.  That controls the number of
>    40-letter SHA1 given to underlying rev-list via execvp(), so
>    it cannot be _too_ big like 1M, lest it exceeds the exec
>    argument buffer limit.

Hmph.  I was reading linux-2.6/fs/exec.c::copy_strings(), but I
do not see any such size limit (other than exceeding the total
machine memory size, probably reported by alloc_page() failing)
imposed there.  Am I looking at the wrong place?

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