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Subject:	Re: bug triggered by long file names in cygwin 1.7.0-52
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On Jul 24 17:21, Dan Stratila wrote:
> After thinking about this for a bit, I realized that the problem is related
> to the fact that bash sets the window title to the current path. When I
> change PS1 to only place the basename of the current path in the window
> title, the crash no longer happens:

That was *the* hint.  In case the path got longer than 256 chars,
an erroneous statement overwrote parts of the stack.  I fixed that
in CVS.


Thanks for the report,
Corinna

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