Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/11/13:35:03
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:31:12PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 11 07:26, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Aha - I found something. When I first ran the touch command above, I
>> stopped at about 8000 files (or about 400k for the subsequent echo command
>> line), which gave the nice "Argument list too long" error. But when I
>> increased the number of files to 45000 (or about 2 meg of command line),
>> the same command failed with a segfault with bash 3.0, and gave no input
>> but left $? at 5 (matching EIO) on the alpha bash 3.1. I will have to try
>> debugging it now, but it seems odd that exec() is dying with E2BIG in one
>> case and EIO when the input is even bigger.
>
>Can you reproduce this with the latest Cygwin snapshot?
Corinna chided me into making sure that exec*() was more bulletproof in it's
E2BIG detection so I've implemented better protection in the current snapshot.
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
cgf
(who's about to have a multitasking meltdown unless he drinks more coffee soon)
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