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Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 11:44:51 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug in ln / cygwin1.dll
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On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 12:37:30PM +0100, Chris January wrote:
>> >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.

Where, specifically, is the segv occurring?

cgf

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