Re: ARG_MAX increase

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 02/24/05

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To: marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    At 2:11 PM -0500 2/23/05, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
    >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.

    I should add to this that I have no objection to seeing it raised
    in 5.x-stable. I'm just saying that even if we do raise it right
    now, there are a lot of users who will not be helped if the value
    is only changed in 5.x-stable.

    I (personally) would rather not see it changed so close to
    5.4-release, but it might make sense to increase it in -stable
    shortly after 5.4-release. I have no opinion on what value it
    should be changed to, though, if we do increase it. I do not
    work in that part of the system, so I don't know all the pros
    and cons that would be involved. 

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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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