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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: kern/58803: kern.argmax isn't changeable even at boot [PATCH]
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The following reply was made to PR kern/58803; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/58803: kern.argmax isn't changeable even at boot [PATCH]
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:02:24 +1100 (EST)

 On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Per Hedeland wrote:
 
 > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
 > >
 > >On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Per Hedeland wrote:
 > >> ...
 > >> So, would the patch be acceptable if it also
 > >>
 > >> a) Fixed the usage of ARG_MAX in the source tree
 > >> b) Made the constant definition be equal to _POSIX_ARG_MAX
 > >> c) Prevented setting the tunable lower than _POSIX_ARG_MAX
 > >>
 > >> ? Removing the definition altogether would of course be just as simple
 > >> as b),
 > >
 > >That would be enough for me, except don't do (b) (leave ARG_MAX with its
 > >current value which is larger than _POSIX_ARG_MAX until most or all ports
 > >are fixed).  Fixing all ports is too much to expect from anyone.
 >
 > OK, I finally got around to looking at this again - an "interesting"
 > exercise... An updated patch is enclosed.
 
 This seems to be along the right lines.  I hope to commit it (with some
 style changes) the release freeze.  (Actually, I hope someone else will
 do this :-).
 
 Someone pointed to a similar problem with NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS.  It
 seems to be easier to fix.
 
 Bruce