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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Wow, just hit RCS bug
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 19:19:53 +0200
In-Reply-To: <694832.7961.bm@smtp113.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>	(tednolan@bellsouth.net's message of "Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:09:22	-0400")
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tednolan@bellsouth.net writes:
> Just for the record, the suggested env var fix
>
> RCS_MEM_LIMIT=0
>
> to "force stdio" does not work for me, but the

That was never suggested as a fix, but to show that the problem occurs
with files much less than 256kiB size when forcing the code path through
stdio (which is what the "0" setting does).  The RCS test suite passes
on Cygwin since it never actively tests this code path.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/142346

> RCS_MEM_LIMIT=10240
>
> to allow 10megs of diffs does..

Which will fail once you happen upon a diff that gets that large.


Regards,
Achim.
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