Re: execve errno setting on MIPS

[tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:09:35PM +0530, Sadashiiv, Halesh wrote:
> char e2BIG[ARG_MAX+1][10];
> char *envList[]={NULL};
>  
> int main(void)
> {
>   int ret,ind;
>  
>   for(ind = 0; ind < ARG_MAX+1; ind++)
>     strcpy(e2BIG[ind], "helloword");

this is broken and does cause an EFAULT on x86 as well (you should
take the warning from gcc about the second argument of execve serious).

Try:

char *e2BIG[ARG_MAX+1];
char *envList[]={NULL};

int main(void)
{
  int ret,ind;

    for(ind = 0; ind < ARG_MAX+1; ind++)
        e2BIG[ind] = strdup("helloword");


And it looks like the ARG_MAX limit is bigger than my installed glibc
thinks, because it works at least on x86. When I increase the array two
2 * ARG_MAX I'll get the wanted E2BIG.

Thomas.

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