Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/02/22:24:09
Would someone who has that talent be dealing with short tempered chits?
I dont think so..
-M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?
> John,
>
> Are you a famous composer? If so, are you _the_ famous composer?
>
>
> At 18:58 2003-04-02, John Williams wrote:
> >Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >>John,
> >>Yes, there's a limitation on the total volume of argument strings.
> >>All Unix systems have such a limit and so does Cygwin. The limits
> >>vary from system to system, though POSIX dictates a minimum value for
> >>this limit.
> >
> >Anybody know the standard Cygwin limit off the top of their head? I'm
> >guessing 32K, given what I saw with mkdep
>
> You shouldn't want to know this. If anything, you should want to know
> the POSIX minimum for this limit.
>
>
> >>For cases where the total list of files can be processed in pieces,
> >>the xargs command will do the divvying up for you, invoking the
> >>command as many times as needed to process all the arguments it reads
> >>from standard input. Check it out--it should be in your
> >>script-writing repertoire.
> >
> >Yup - I used xargs in my solution to this problem. It seems not many
> >people build linux kernels under cygwin - I think if they did, this
> >issue I've found would have been reported earlier, because it's the
> >first step in the kernel configuration process.
>
> I'm guessing very few Linux kernels get built under Cygwin, but I could
> be wrong.
>
> That tyrant CGF, who won't let me leave, uses Linux to build Cygwin. Is
> that irony or hypocrisy? (Right, right. It's "pragmatism.")
>
>
> >Thanks for your reply,
> >
> >John
>
>
> Randall Schulz
>
>
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