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.
I wonder if you're seeing the same bug as reported here: <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=111732750706203&w=2>. (How kind of him to post on FD and not even CC cygwin@) Brian -- 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/
