Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Thu Oct 04 2007 - 18:27:52 EST


Linus Torvalds writes:

> Well, since others definitely don't see this, including me, and I can do
> things like 62MB exec arrays:
>
> [torvalds@woody linux]$ echo $(find /home/torvalds/) | wc
> 1 883304 63000962

That wouldn't actually do an exec, assuming you're using bash, since
echo is a shell builtin in bash. You'd need to do /bin/echo.

Paul.
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