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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <011901c1f2fb$1fbf5330$0100a8c0 AT advent02> <20020504042742 DOT GI32261 AT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bug in ln / cygwin1.dll
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 12:37:30 +0100
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> >When I run 'make -f Makefile.cvs' with QT3, I find that ln segfaults
trying
> >to create a symlink. I've included the output of strace showing the
problem,
> >output of cygcheck and also the stackdump ln produces. I can reproduce
this,
> >so if you need any more information, please ask. The problem occurs with
the
> >latest Cygwin CVS.
> >ln is 'ln (fileutils) 4.1'.
> >cygwin is 'CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ADVENT02 1.3.11(0.52/3/2) 2002-05-03 15:18 i686
> >unknown'
>
> You're using a locally built version of cygwin.  Please run it under gdb
> and pinpoint where the problem is occurring.  You may find the techniques
> in how-to-debug-cygwin.txt useful.
As far as I can tell, it's caused by the fact that more than 1024 arguments
are being passed to ln and in exec.cc, argv is declared as 1024 elements. Is
there any reason this limit shouldn't be upped to, say, 2048 elements? If
not, can this change be made in CVS please.

Regards
Chris



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