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execve.2: execve also returns E2BIG if a string is too long
The execve syscall returns -E2BIG in 3 cases:
- The total length of the command line arguments and environment is too large.
- An argument or environment string (including the NUL byte) is longer than MAX_ARG_STRLEN.
- The full path to the executable (including the NUL byte) exceeds MAX_ARG_STRLEN.
Spell out all 3 cases in the -E2BIG section.
Discovered by moving a too large commandline parameter to an environment
variable, and finding that things still did not work. Examined the code
in fs/exec.c to get the details.
This simple shell script starts failing at 2^17 on a system with 4kB
page size:
./exec2big.sh: line 10: /bin/true: Argument list too long
fork failed at loop 17
STRING="a"
for loop in `seq 20`; do
STRING="$STRING$STRING"
export STRING
if /bin/true ; then
: # still under the limit
else
echo "fork failed at loop $loop"
fi
done
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew House <mattlloydhouse@gmail.com>1 parent ae6b221 commit e52ca1b
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