Re: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft]
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
28 Oct 1998 03:06:23 GMT
Followup to: <m0zYHz1-0007UkC@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > > I'm one. I need HZ at least. Page size and the cmd+env size would also
> > > be very useful.
> >
> > Why?
>
> I hit the cmd/env limit occasionally but its an implementation flaw
> not a reason for a tunable. Minix rather neatly side stepped the
> problem by building the env/cmd stuff directly into the user space
> of the task concerned. Of course thats a bit hairier in the Linux
> case
>
Would it really be? It seems to me that the kernel could muck
arbitrarily with the image during exec() time.
-hpa
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