Guys,

this ticket was last commented on almost a year ago.  Is it still an 
issue?

[jaenicke - Wed May 28 23:02:27 2003]:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun May 25 09:42:02 2003]: 
>  
> > On Fri, 23 May 2003, Lutz Jaenicke via RT wrote: 
> >  
> > > > 
> > > > I think my machine has a decent set of patches but as I don't 
> have root 
> > > > access I cannot really verify that. Do you think you can do 
> > > > getconf ARG_MAX and getconf LINE_MAX on your machine such that I 
> can see 
> > > > if this is indeed the problem? 
> > > 
> > > serv01 24: getconf ARG_MAX 
> > > 20478 
> > > serv01 26: getconf LINE_MAX 
> > > 2048 
> > > 
> > > Best regards, 
> > >   Lutz 
> >  
> > Hi Lutz, 
> >  
> > I think this must mean there is something wrong with my workstation 
> or my 
> > setup. I have exactly the same values as you so this cannot be the 
> > limiting factor. Perhaps there is a patch which is missing. 
>  
> Hmm. I have no more specific ideas. I did dig out the following: 
>  
> PHKL_10176: 
>       The internal buffer within the kernel was created with a 
>       length of 20480 bytes, with no provision for increasing its 
>       size.  This patch provides for up to 100 such buffers, with 
>       all but the first allocated only if required (that is, if 
>       more than 20480 bytes of argv/env information is found). 
>       Thus, exec() now supports up to 2048000 bytes of argv/env 
>       information. 
>  
> However: this patch has long been superseeded by PHKL_16750 (and other 
> later versions of this patch)... 
>  
> Best regards, 
>       Lutz 
>  
>  

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