ARG_MAX increase

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 2:11 PM -0500 2/23/05, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>At 10:46 AM +0100 2/23/05, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>I saw ARG_MAX was increased in 6.0. Recently I noticed that
>>the lang/fpc-devel port currently hits the old limit in
>>certain (though rare) cases), and this is annoying.
>>
>>(some testing revealed that half the increase of 6.0
>>to 131k params is also ok)
>>
>>Any chance ARG_MAX will be upped in -STABLE too?
>
>For this specific example, it would be better to fix the port.

I should add to this that I have no objection to seeing it raised
in 5.x-stable.  I'm just saying that even if we do raise it right
now, there are a lot of users who will not be helped if the value
is only changed in 5.x-stable.

I (personally) would rather not see it changed so close to
5.4-release, but it might make sense to increase it in -stable
shortly after 5.4-release.  I have no opinion on what value it
should be changed to, though, if we do increase it.  I do not
work in that part of the system, so I don't know all the pros
and cons that would be involved.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu