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Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately triggerOOM-killer


From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel () I-love SAKURA ne jp>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:56:52 +0900

Brad Spengler wrote:
The bug seems to have been introduced in 2.6.23, see:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.hppa/752
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-arch/msg01584.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel () vger kernel org/msg170491.html
though I'm guessing the functionality was also backported to major 
distros
As far as I know, RHEL >= 5.3 and Asianux >= 3.2 backported this functionality.


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