From: dummy AT cyberpass DOT net (Robert)
Subject: BUG REPORT: xargs getting "environment is too large for exec" in b17.1
16 Dec 1996 18:02:08 -0800
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I read through the FAQ & www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 and there was no mention
of precisely this problem.

It seems that the xargs.exe (/bin/xargs.exe) that comes with b17.1 does not
work for me.  This is the same sort of problem I had before, and with my
hacked-up version of xargs, things work great.

But, the way I "fixed" the code was to comment out the error-checking!
I.e., I comment out the line:

  if (arg_max > 20 * 1024)

such that arg_max is always set to 20 * 1024.  I'm guessing that
arg_max is set to negative so later when it reaches:

  if (arg_max <= 0)

the environment is "too large" all fails.

Is anyone else having this problem?  I'm hacking around it fine, but I don't
understand why I seem to be the only one affected by this bug.

P.S. On a different topic, in
     www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/patches/findutils-instr, the
     instructions for changing "fstype.c" is no longer true -- if you put
     the "int MOUNTED = 0" line in there, find won't compile.

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