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 Message-ID: <42FBBCCD.A1216C40@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:02:05 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Rsync over SSH dies before it is able to send with lots of files References: <42FA081C.25957.24F4EADF@localhost> <42FA2A6A.29370.257AEDF0@localhost> <42F9FC86.8060602@byu.net> <42FB51FF.3000000@byu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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. I wonder if you're seeing the same bug as reported here: . (How kind of him to post on FD and not even CC cygwin@) Brian -- 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/