Re: maximum length of process command stored in unix

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 04/04/05 

Date: 04 Apr 2005 21:26:49 GMT

kamalp@acm.org (Kamal R. Prasad) writes:

>When you execute a command, execve() syscall results in cmdline being
>copied from userspace to kernel in a buffer of size 2048 bytes and not
>80 bytes. struct proc -may or may not truncate the p_comm(or cmdline)
>to less than LINE_MAX(2048 bytes).

2 Megabyte, not 2K.

Casper 

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