Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:15:44 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: observation: cygrunsrv -env option: max env var size is 256 chars Message-ID: <20040418111544.GC1307@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200404171450.i3HEolU6007421@tigris.pounder.sol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404171450.i3HEolU6007421@tigris.pounder.sol.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Apr 17 09:50, Tom Rodman wrote: > Based on a few tests this morning under 1.5.9(0.112/4/2), > the cygrunsrv -env option supports env vars > with a string length below 257 characters. Larger env vars > seem to get into the registry, but not into the service's env. > > If I'm right it would be nice if "cygrunsrv --help" showed this. > I read the help as saying up to 255 separate env vars may be > defined. I've uploaded version 1.0-1 which allows arbitrarily sized environment variables. The number of variables is still limited to 255. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/