with procfs's cmdline - from the PR:
The cmdline implementation in procfs is bogus. It's possible that
part of the fix is a workaround of a UVM problem - that is, when
(internally) accessing the top of the process VM (the end of the
args) a request for I/0 of a PAGE_SIZE'd block starting at less
than a PAGE_SIZE from the end of the mem space returns EINVAL
rather than the data that is available. Whether this is a bug
in UVM or not depends upon how it is defined to work, and I was
unable to determine that. (Simon Burge found that problem, and
provided the basis of the workaround/fix).
Then, the cmdline function is unable to read more than one
page of args, and a good thing too, as the way it is written
attempting to get more than that would reference into lala land.
And, on an attempt to read a lot of data when the above is
fixed, most of the data won't be returned, only the final block
of any read.
Tested on alpha, pmax, i386 and sparc.
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