Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/17/22:10:30
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:06:19PM -0500, Thomas L Roche wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:18:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> I've created a new snapshot
> >
> >http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20040217.dll.bz2
> >
> >> which incorporates Pierre's much appreciated research into the
> >> unzip[-related] problem.
> >
> >and which WORKS! n == 1 (I'll check how it works for my boss, too),
> >but my setup script ran to completion for the first time in > 1 wk ...
> >(gotta catch up on a lotta work, which will probably block emacs
> >debugging until after 1.5.8 :-(
>
> Hmm. I really don't understand why unless you were unzipping *a lot*
> of files with long filenames. There should have been something like
> 32MB of space to waste before you saw the problem.
They were. 1.4G zip archives with tens of thousands of small files, many
with path lengths > 1k. I think you nailed it.
Igor
> I guess I shouldn't complain but many years of programming make me
> wonder if there is another bug lurking here.
>
> cgf
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