Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/12/14:05:48
Vijay,
I guess I was misled by this:
/usr/include/limits.h:#define _POSIX_ARG_MAX 4096
/usr/include/sys/syslimits.h:#define ARG_MAX 65536 /* max bytes for an exec
function */
Furthermore, "/usr/include/limits.h" bears a Red Hat copyright and is
specifically marked as a "part of Cygwin," while
"/usr/include/sys/syslimits.h" bears a "Regents of the University of
California" copyright. Thus I assumed the former was more authoritative.
Sorry (again) for the misinformation.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 10:53 2002-12-12, Vijay Sampath wrote:
>Randall,
>
>I just tried out a line with 20000 characters and it works fine on bash
>as an input to GCC. At this point I gave up trying to increase the
>length to find out the limit. Whatever the bash limit is, it is
>definitely greater than a windows shell. Of course, if you are invoking
>a bat file or some such thing from a cygwin shell then you will be
>bounded by the windows limit. Therefore Allan, I suggest trying to move
>to a "pure" cygwin enviroment, if there is such a thing.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Vijay
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