[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > Hi Ralf, > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> You may be interested in that Linux 2.6.23 will remove this limit, see >> <http://lwn.net/Articles/246528/>. > > I am very happy to see the limit removed. But did I read that log > message correctly that this is achieved by adding an additional copy > of all of the data?
There is no additional copy. Instead of copying the strings via kernel pages that are later mapped into the new process's VM the data is now directly copied into the destination VM. Previously, the new process's VM didn't exist yet at the time when the copy was made. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
