On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:31:12PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 11 07:26, Eric Blake wrote: >> Aha - I found something. When I first ran the touch command above, I >> stopped at about 8000 files (or about 400k for the subsequent echo command >> line), which gave the nice "Argument list too long" error. But when I >> increased the number of files to 45000 (or about 2 meg of command line), >> the same command failed with a segfault with bash 3.0, and gave no input >> but left $? at 5 (matching EIO) on the alpha bash 3.1. I will have to try >> debugging it now, but it seems odd that exec() is dying with E2BIG in one >> case and EIO when the input is even bigger. > >Can you reproduce this with the latest Cygwin snapshot?
Corinna chided me into making sure that exec*() was more bulletproof in it's E2BIG detection so I've implemented better protection in the current snapshot. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ cgf (who's about to have a multitasking meltdown unless he drinks more coffee soon) -- 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/
