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: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:19:28 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Rsync over SSH dies before it is able to send with lots of files Message-ID: <20050811211928.GB15932@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <42FA081C.25957.24F4EADF@localhost> <42FA2A6A.29370.257AEDF0@localhost> <42F9FC86.8060602@byu.net> <42FB51FF.3000000@byu.net> <42FBBCCD.A1216C40@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42FBBCCD.A1216C40@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:02:05PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >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: >. Coincidentally enough, this is fixed in the latest snapshot, AFAICT. >(How kind of him to post on FD and not even CC cygwin@) Yes, isn't it, though? 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/