2009/1/13 Andrew McGill <list2008 at lunch.za.net>:
> Actually, this is a kernel limit. There is a (historical?) limit of 32K for
> the environment and the command line parameters, but that seems to have been
> bumped up to 128K.
Interesting. That makes perfect sense to me, having spent one looooong
night implementing the exec() system call in NachOS back in uni. :)
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Cheers,
Josh
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