Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:11:50 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARG_MAX increase Message-ID: <p06210220be4283979dd9@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20050223094647.D6CC01D9F4@turtle.stack.nl> References: <20050223094647.D6CC01D9F4@turtle.stack.nl>
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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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