On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:02:05PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >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>.
Coincidentally enough, this is fixed in the latest snapshot, AFAICT. >(How kind of him to post on FD and not even CC cygwin@) Yes, isn't it, though? cgf -- 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/
