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saagarjha on Feb 5, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Handling argc==0 in the Linux kernel

Arguments go on the stack, which has a fixed size.

josephcsible on Feb 8, 2022 [–]

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170707185729.GA70967@beast/T/... (merged as commit da029c1) added a hard upper limit of 6MB for argv + envp combined, no matter how big the process's stack is.

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