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Re: 'Argument list too long' in non-recursive setup


From: Xan Lopez
Subject: Re: 'Argument list too long' in non-recursive setup
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:15:31 +0300

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Xan Lopez<address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Linux before 2.6.23(?), the default limit for command line plus
>> environment when executing a process is something like 128KB, but this
>> can be modified in the kernel (or /proc, I don't remember).  On newer
>> Linux kernels, this limit has been lifted to not exist any more.  So one
>> workaround would be to build your distribution tarball under a recent
>> kernel only.
>
> That's right, this limit can be modified recompiling the kernel (it's
> a #define IIRC), although that workaround is not very practical. It's
> good to know this is going away in recent kernels though.

Oh, you wrote 2.6.23, not 2.6.32!

I'm using 2.6.27, so this should be working. I googled a bit, and
found this page: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/, which
indeed mentions ARG_MAX should be relative to the stack size in new
kernels. I increased my stack size with ulimit -s, and checked that
getconf ARG_MAX indeed grows with it. Still, distcheck still fails the
same way no matter how much I increase the value. The page says
limits.h still shows the old value though (which is true), so I guess
someone is checking that and not the dynamic value. Sounds like a bug
somewhere, not sure exactly where (my shell?).




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