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author | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2014-11-26 15:17:59 +0100 |
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committer | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2014-11-26 15:17:59 +0100 |
commit | 04c14176023c65550fd46c2e44a1aa04d426d69a (patch) | |
tree | 71ac5af09a5303ba891b28bc879a10e1da92c6dc /util-linux | |
parent | 2835a224cd603489ac08625265d383d4690cb58a (diff) | |
download | busybox-04c14176023c65550fd46c2e44a1aa04d426d69a.tar.gz |
libbb: use ARG_MAX for bb_arg_max() only if it's 60k+
Sometimes ARG_MAX is small (like 32k) yet sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX)
is big, and people prefer using the bigger value.
OTOH, with sufficiently large ARG_MAX, further wins from
sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) being bigger are exponentially smaller:
you can see 4 times fewer fork+execs when you run find, but
when each execed process already takes a thousand parameters
it's likely execution time is dominated by what that process
does with each parameter.
Thus, with this change ARG_MAX is used if it's sufficiently big,
otherwise sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) is used.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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