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Bug#1056357: general: Command line of any program invocation is limited to less than 3544 bytes



Yes that's serious because some commands are bigger than 3.5mb, is your machine embedded perhaps? Or have you definitely given the virtual machine enough space and ram to work with?

Thanks 
Zeb

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023, 18:30 Bruno Haible, <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
Package: general
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: bruno@clisp.org

I'm using Debian GNU/Linux on hppa, in a virtual machine emulated by QEMU
8.0.2.
$ uname -srm
Linux 6.3.0-2-parisc parisc

In this machine, for the invocation of any program, the length of the command
line (= all arguments together) is limited to less than 3544 bytes.

How to reproduce:

In bash:
$ /bin/echo `seq 913`
-bash: /bin/echo: Argument list too long

In dash:
$ /bin/echo `seq 913`
dash: 1: /bin/echo: Argument list too long

I also see this while doing "make check" of packages that have more than 1000
tests. So, it appears to be a general problem.

The values returned by getconf don't match the reality:
$ getconf ARG_MAX
2097152
$ getconf _POSIX_ARG_MAX
2097152

I have looked at the values of several files in /sys/kernel and
/proc/sys/kernel, without finding the cause.

For comparison, in a different VM, running "Linux 6.3.7-t2 parisc" (from the
T2-SDE distribution), I don't observe this bug. Both machines have the same
amount of "physical" RAM: 256 MiB.

The ulimit values don't appear to be the cause, because they are similar in
the two machines:
In the Debian VM (with the bug):
$ ulimit -a
real-time non-blocking time  (microseconds, -R) unlimited
core file size              (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size               (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority                 (-e) 0
file size                   (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                     (-i) 849
max locked memory           (kbytes, -l) 65536
max memory size             (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                          (-n) 1024
pipe size                (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues         (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority                  (-r) 0
stack size                  (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time                   (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes                  (-u) 849
virtual memory              (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks                          (-x) unlimited
In the T2-SDE machine, with no bug:
$ ulimit -a
real-time non-blocking time  (microseconds, -R) unlimited
core file size              (blocks, -c) 1048575
data seg size               (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority                 (-e) 0
file size                   (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                     (-i) 909
max locked memory           (kbytes, -l) 8192
max memory size             (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                          (-n) 1024
pipe size                (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues         (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority                  (-r) 0
stack size                  (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time                   (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes                  (-u) 909
virtual memory              (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks                          (-x) unlimited


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