Re: execve errno setting on MIPS

["Sadashiiv, Halesh" <halesh.sadashiv@ap.sony.com>]

>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).

 Thanks, you are right.

>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");

> 

> 

 It wroks on X86 and other Archs.

> 

> 

>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.

 Yes, on MIPS we need to increase the ARM_MAX to 2*ARG_MAX to get E2BIG.

Thanks,

Halesh

 

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