Re: Max arguments for NSTask?
Re: Max arguments for NSTask?
- Subject: Re: Max arguments for NSTask?
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 01:14:12 -0600
At 5:23 PM -0600 10/27/02, Mark Levin wrote:
What I want to know is why a modern operating system would have
such a limitation in the first place.
It's not like memory allocation is that hard a problem.
An arbitrary limit also guards against processes requesting
outrageously large or infinite amounts of resources, accidentally or
otherwise. There are hard limits on the numbers of many other items
throughout posix, why not exe invocations?
There shouldn't be hard limits on most other items either.
If it's important to limit the size of the argument buffer a process
can be assigned, it should be a modifiable limit, not one compiled
into the kernel as a constant.
-- Chris
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