RE: Limit to length of command line arguments? (was Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K)

2003-10-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
rry -Original Message- From: Jörg Schaible [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Limit to length of command line arguments? (was Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K) Hi Barry, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote

Re: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K

2003-10-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Nicolas BUONOMO wrote: > Corinna Vinschen a ecrit : > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:39:39AM +0200, david.liberce wrote: > > > >>I reproduce this behaviour. > >> > >>Looks like the PATH environment variable is not valid anymore after $VAR > >>has been asigned? > > > > > > Nop

Re: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K

2003-10-23 Thread Nicolas BUONOMO
Corinna Vinschen a écrit : On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:39:39AM +0200, david.liberce wrote: I reproduce this behaviour. Looks like the PATH environment variable is not valid anymore after $VAR has been asigned? Nope. I debugged this situation. It looks like a Windows restriction. When trying

Re: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K

2003-10-23 Thread Nicolas BUONOMO
Corinna Vinschen a écrit : On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:39:39AM +0200, david.liberce wrote: I reproduce this behaviour. Looks like the PATH environment variable is not valid anymore after $VAR has been asigned? Nope. I debugged this situation. It looks like a Windows restriction. When trying

Re: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K

2003-10-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:39:39AM +0200, david.liberce wrote: > > I reproduce this behaviour. > > Looks like the PATH environment variable is not valid anymore after $VAR > has been asigned? Nope. I debugged this situation. It looks like a Windows restriction. When trying to call CreateProce

RE: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K

2003-10-23 Thread Demmer, Thomas
Davied wrote: >I reproduce this behaviour. > >Looks like the PATH environment variable is not valid anymore after $VAR >has been asigned? > >David No, it cannot start external programs. The error message is bash: /usr/bin/ls.exe: Invalid argument All internal commands I have tested work. echo

RE: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K

2003-10-23 Thread david.liberce
x27; Objet : RE: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K I have no long command line! In my environment most Cygwin executables do not work, if long environment variables are set (resp. exported). Please have a look at my very short example below. First I create an environment variable V

RE: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K

2003-10-23 Thread Klein Andre ICM N AS PD B 3
king fine! Can anyone reproduce this behaviour? It is really critical for the use of Cygwin in out project ;-) Thanks Andre -Original Message- From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003 15:53 To: 'Klein Andre ICM N AS PD B 3'

RE: Limit to length of command line arguments? (was Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K)

2003-10-22 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Barry, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote on Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:43 AM: > While doing some other work, I've come to the impression that > this is not a fileutils problem. In a directory with ~1700 > htm files whose names take 37k, > $ ls * > bash: /bin/ls.exe: Invalid argument >

Limit to length of command line arguments? (was Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K)

2003-10-22 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
consideration. - Barry Buchbinder -Original Message- From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 9:53 AM To: 'Klein Andre ICM N AS PD B 3'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K It may be a comman

RE: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K

2003-10-22 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
Original Message- From: Klein Andre ICM N AS PD B 3 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 7:16 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K Thanks for your answer! I've tried to make the example more simple (s. at

RE: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K

2003-10-22 Thread Klein Andre ICM N AS PD B 3
Sent: Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003 12:01 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:30:54AM +0200, Klein Andre ICM N AS PD B 3 wrote: > I need to set a very long environment variable CLASSPATH within Cygwin bash. >

Re: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K

2003-10-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:30:54AM +0200, Klein Andre ICM N AS PD B 3 wrote: > I need to set a very long environment variable CLASSPATH within Cygwin bash. > But there seems to be an upper limit of 32K for environment variables!?!? > > Is there any way to increase this upper limit? > > I have att

Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K

2003-10-22 Thread Klein Andre ICM N AS PD B 3
I need to set a very long environment variable CLASSPATH within Cygwin bash. But there seems to be an upper limit of 32K for environment variables!?!? Is there any way to increase this upper limit? I have attached 2 small files for demonstrating the problem. Start run.sh and the invocation of the