This is mostly an FYI, as I don't think our ridiculous environment needs to
be supported, but the E2BIG test in exec3.sub never finishes in our testing
environment due to ARG_MAX being set to a huge number. I'm adding a patch
to limit the test to 2 MB ARG_MAX, though I don't know what the best valu
Hi Joel
On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 at 00:08, Joel Ebel via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne
Again SHell wrote:
> This is mostly an FYI, as I don't think our ridiculous environment needs to
> be supported, but the E2BIG test in exec3.sub never finishes in our testing
> environment due to ARG_MAX being set
On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM Martin D Kealey
wrote:
> Hi Joel
>
>
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 at 00:08, Joel Ebel via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne
> Again SHell wrote:
>
>> This is mostly an FYI, as I don't think our ridiculous environment needs
>> to
>> be supported, but the E2BIG test in exec3.s
On Sat, Jun 7, 2025, at 12:55 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> However there might be some objections to relying on the printf built-in,
> since in theory Bash could be built without it, in which case I suggest:
>
> [...]
>
> +for (( m = n = argmax / ${#argmax} + 1 ; o = m & m-1 ; m = o )) do :; done
>