view.getView uses a 10 item pager, ignoring "Items to display: unlimited"

When calling view.getView for a View that has no pager and unlimited results you only get 10 results/nodes displayed. For some reason it automatically uses the default pager if you specify either an unlimited number of results, or to not use a pager at all inside your view.

As a very quick workaround I'm forcing the view to choose 0 as the number of results per page by inserting the following line between two existing lines in views_service.module.

$view->set_arguments($args);
$view->set_items_per_page(0); // inserted this line
$view->execute();

Hopefully someone knows the real way to pass on the paging/limit information from the view when calling it via the views service but for my purposes I'm never paging so this works fine.