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, 23 Aug 2005 10:34:57 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: CreateProcess was: bash: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long Message-ID: <20050823083457.GL17452@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4309D026.8000702@byu.net> <20050822145726.GD1223@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <430A71EC.6EAC330B@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <430A71EC.6EAC330B@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Aug 22 17:46, Brian Dessent wrote: > 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? They made the same typo also in the CreateProcessAsUser and CreateProcessWithLogonW man pages, but not in CreateProcessWithTokenW. It seems to be a typo. I tried to start Cygwin's /bin/echo from a cmd shell and it got the full command line of ~500 chars. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-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/