Re: ARG_MAX increase

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 02/23/05

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    Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:11:50 -0500
To: marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    At 10:46 AM +0100 2/23/05, Marco van de Voort wrote:
    >I saw ARG_MAX was increased in 6.0. Recently I noticed that
    >the lang/fpc-devel port currently hits the old limit in
    >certain (though rare) cases), and this is annoying.
    >
    >(some testing revealed that half the increase of 6.0
    >to 131k params is also ok)
    >
    >Any chance ARG_MAX will be upped in -STABLE too?

    For this specific example, it would be better to fix the port.
    The port has to work on many releases in addition to 5.x-stable
    and 6.x-current. We can't change ARG_MAX in all of those
    releases to fix the port. We certainly can't change it in
    5.3-RELEASE (because that's sitting on CD's), and we probably
    aren't going to change it in 5.3-ERRATA (the "minimal change
    security branch", which many people run on production servers),
    and it's even less likely that we'll change it in 4.x-stable. 

    -- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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