On 6/17/25 11:30 AM, Joel Ebel wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu
<mailto:chet.ra...@case.edu>> wrote:
On 6/17/25 11:03 AM, Joel Ebel wrote:
> After some digging, we found that in our environment there's no
upper bound
> on RLIMIT_STACK, so it's set to the maximum allowed value of
> RLIM64_INFINITY or 2^64-1
> Then make sets the stack limit to the maximum value, again
RLIM64_INFINITY.
> glibc calculates ARG_MAX by dividing the current value of
RLIMIT_STACK by
> 4, which gives us the 2^62-1 we're seeing.
So a suitable `ulimit -s' would do the trick?
Yes, I believe it would. Where are you proposing that it should be run?
Since ulimit applies to the current process and its descendents, you can
start a shell, set the ulimit, and run `make tests' from that shell.
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