execve manpage changes

From: Ollie Wild
Date: Mon Aug 06 2007 - 20:39:30 EST


Michael,

Per our previous discussion, here are the updates to the execve(2)
manpage resulting from the variable length argument support patch in
linux-2.6.23-rc1. The execve API is unmodified. However, the
following should be noted in the "Notes" section.

Prior to linux-2.6.23, the memory used to store the environment and
argument list strings was limited to 32 (MAX_ARG_PAGES) pages. On
most architectures, the page size is 4kB, leading to a maximum size of
128kB.

In linux-2.6.23 and later, most architectures support a size limit
derived from the current RLIMIT_STACK
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