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: <430A71EC.6EAC330B@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:46:36 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: CreateProcess was: bash: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long References: <4309D026.8000702@byu.net> <20050822145726.GD1223@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Christopher Faylor wrote: > There will be some limits (especially with cygwin 1.5.18 - this is fixed > in snapshots) but mounting the /bin and /usr/bin directories with -X > should increase the command line length enormously over the Windows > default of around 32K. The MSDN docs for the lpCommandLine parameter to CreateProcess does indeed say the limit is 32K chars, but then there's this note that for Windows 2000 it's MAX_PATH which is 260, right? Why in the world would 2k have such a smaller limit and all the over versions have a 32K limit? Or is this a typo? 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/