Re: [PATCH] execve.2: document an effect of BINPRM_BUF_SIZE increase to 256

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Hi Eugene,

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 17:07, Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Increase of BINPRM_BUF_SIZE to 256 increases the limit on the possible
> interpreter line length for scripts to 255.

I don't see this in the kernel source tree? Could you point me at the
right source file / git commit?

Thanks,

Michael

> Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  man2/execve.2 | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
> index d2bb861..f4e37d6 100644
> --- a/man2/execve.2
> +++ b/man2/execve.2
> @@ -633,8 +633,9 @@ prototype:
>  .in
>  .\"
>  .SS Interpreter scripts
> -A maximum line length of 127 characters is allowed for the first line in
> -an interpreter script.
> +Before Linux 4.20, a maximum line length of 127 characters was allowed
> +for the first line in an interpreter script.
> +In Linux 4.20 onwards, this limit was increased up to 255 characters.
>  .PP
>  The semantics of the
>  .I optional-arg
> --
> 2.1.4
>


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



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