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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 21:27:44 -0800
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>Oh, well anyhow _SC_ARG_MAX is set at 64k which I have found exceedingly
>low.  How do you change this anyways?

   It's not easily changed without causing other problems. 64K already results
in potentially 1MB of memory being temporarily consumed. I need to make some
changes to kern_exec.c to add support for a resource wait when "string" space
isn't allocateable. Right now it returns ENOMEM if more than 16 processes
simultaneously exec. This is an extremely rare condition, but possible.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project