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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:15:44 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: observation: cygrunsrv -env option: max env var size is 256 chars
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On Apr 17 09:50, Tom Rodman wrote:
> Based on a few tests this morning  under 1.5.9(0.112/4/2),
> the cygrunsrv -env option supports env vars
> with a string length below 257 characters.  Larger env vars 
> seem to get into the registry, but not into the service's env.
> 
> If I'm right it would be nice if "cygrunsrv --help" showed this.
> I read the help as saying up to 255 separate env vars may be
> defined.

I've uploaded version 1.0-1 which allows arbitrarily sized environment
variables.  The number of variables is still limited to 255.

Corinna

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