Hello Palmer
On 2/14/21 5:29 AM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I just happened upon this inconsistent text while reading `man 2 execve`. The
> code in question landed in 2.6.23 as b6a2fea39318 ("mm: variable length
> argument support").
>
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks! Patch applied.
Cheers,
Michael
> ---
> man2/execve.2 | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
> index eb3d37e32..639e3b4b9 100644
> --- a/man2/execve.2
> +++ b/man2/execve.2
> @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ so that, even when
> .BR RLIMIT_STACK
> is set very low,
> applications are guaranteed to have at least as much argument and
> -environment space as was provided by Linux 2.6.23 and earlier.
> +environment space as was provided by Linux 2.6.22 and earlier.
> (This guarantee was not provided in Linux 2.6.23 and 2.6.24.)
> Additionally, the limit per string is 32 pages (the kernel constant
> .BR MAX_ARG_STRLEN ),
>
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
