Re: Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/27/2015 09:10 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Eric, > > On Monday, 2015-10-26 10:14:06 -0600, you wrote: > >> ... >> So once >> you start a dash shell, that dash shell can start any number of other >> dash shells with no command

Re: Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-27 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Corinna, On Tuesday, 2015-10-27 16:17:56 +0100, you wrote: > ... > That won't work. setup.exe is a non-Cygwin application so it's restricted > to the maximum line length of the CreateProcess call, which, per > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682425%28v=vs.85%29.aspx >

Re: Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 27 16:10, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Eric, > > On Monday, 2015-10-26 10:14:06 -0600, you wrote: > > > ... > > So once > > you start a dash shell, that dash shell can start any number of other > > dash shells with no command li

Re: Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-27 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Eric, On Monday, 2015-10-26 10:14:06 -0600, you wrote: > ... > So once > you start a dash shell, that dash shell can start any number of other > dash shells with no command line length limit other than the memory > available to your

Re: Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/26/2015 05:16 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Does anybody definitely know about a maximum command line length in the > Ash or Dash Shells? /bin/ash _is_ the same as /bin/dash, so there is no difference in their behavior. A windows process spawning a cygwin one, or a cygwin process spawning

Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-26 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Fellow Cygwinners, recently I needed to remove quite a few Cygwin packages from my install- ation, and due to all these interdependencies I wanted to do this in a single call: setup-x86*.exe -x ...,...,... Calling this command as a Windows "*.bat" file failed with an error message sugg