On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:16 PM, spqr <sritacc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, I guess this is a fairly stupid question because I can pass everything
> to the process as part of the "env"
> Maybe a new question is that since I'm talking about "quite a lot of junk,"
> is there any negative consequence
> of passing a really large env to the child process.

Not intrinsically but most (all?) operating systems put some arbitrary
upper limit on the environment size.  On modern Linux, for example,
the maximum length of arguments + environment is usually (but not
always) 2 MB.

In case of doubt, consult the limitations section of `man execve`.

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