On 11 Aug 2005 at 7:26, 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 $? at 5 (matching EIO) on the alpha bash > 3.1. I will have to try debugging it now, but it seems odd that > exec() is dying with E2BIG in one case and EIO when the input is even > bigger.
Just FYI the same also happens with bash 2.05 (I rolled back to see if it helped my situation but no) bash-2.05b$ bash --version bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Good luck! Fight the good fight! 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/
