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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 17:29:09 -0600 (CST)
From: Satish Balay <balay@fastmail.fm>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: environment is too large for exec
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On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, Andrey Repin wrote:

> Greetings, Satish Balay!
> 
> > I'm seeing the following error from cygwin:
> 
> > "environment is too large for exec"
> 
> > I can try reducing the env - however - is there an option in cygwin to increase the current 'max env'?
> 
> As far as I recall, this is an OS limit.

Ah so that can't be changed. Thanks for the info.

> Most often this is caused by an overgrown %PATH% variable. Inspect it and
> cleanup from stuff unused/unnecessary. There's many ways to make executables
> visible without adding them to %PATH%.

In this case - it was gitlab-runner setting up an env var with the commit message - this was long.

Satish

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