On 9 Aug 2005 at 21:41, Eric Blake wrote: > For starters, since you are using rsync recursion, get rid of the * to > give rsync just a single filename at startup, rather than making bash > try to expand 45000 names all at once on the command prompt:
Bingo! Of course now that you mention it, it's as clear as day! I omitted the * and the rsync works perfectly. > Hmm, you're making bash expand a wildcard into 45000 files. This > shouldn't crash bash, but I'm guessing there is some of memory > corruption or malloc failure when consuming so much memory all before > forking(). I'll have to see if I can try and reproduce the failure. Do you think the win32 path length will be included for every file? If this is the case you can probably safely assume 30-40 bytes per filename. If this were the case it would quickly add up to about 1.7MB in just passed filenames alone. Considering that this will ultimately process a directory with 500,000 files in it it's not hard to work out that things are going to go pear shaped in a hurry. Thanks for the quick spotting! Cheers, - Bob - -- Bob Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SmartMedia Solutions, Dunedin NZ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
