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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:08:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Maximum # of program arguments
To: Mike Kasprzak <mike AT swoo DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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--- Mike Kasprzak <mike AT swoo DOT net> wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> I'm having problems linking with an ARM targeted GCC cross compiler.  It
> looks like I may have hit some sort of limit for number of character or
> arguments to an executable (I keep getting "fork" errors, and child cant
> find blah blah blah).  I do have quite possibly over 16k characters I'm
> passing as arguments to a program.  Whats the maximum, and how can I
> increase it?? :).
> 
> I'm running the latest (downloaded yesterday) CYGWIN, GCC's (3.1.1 and
> 2.9.x), MAKE, ...
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. :)

On WinNT/2K/XP the maximum length of the command line in cygwin is 8K. 
For some reason, it is 256K in Win9X/ME.  Still, you should probably limit
yourself to 8K for maximum portability.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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