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: Tue, 25 May 2004 19:10:16 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: shell cmds crapping out with large numbers of files Message-ID: <20040525231016.GB1683@coe.bosbc.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <018601c442a4$6c0197d0$4d1f1cac@THEODOLITE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 06:55:35PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Cygwin has a 32k command-line length limit. Cygwin doesn't, AFAIK, have any command-line length limit other than the amount of memory available to store the command line. Windows has a limit but Cygwin shouldn't impose one. That's why I advocate using the "mount -X" option. Not only does it work around these type of things it should also speed things up slightly. cgf -- 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/