Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 19:10:16 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: shell cmds crapping out with large numbers of files
Message-ID: <20040525231016.GB1683@coe.bosbc.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <HDEFLKBDJBPHMOHGIIPCKECICAAA DOT greno AT verizon DOT net> <018601c442a4$6c0197d0$4d1f1cac AT THEODOLITE> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 58 DOT 0405251810061 DOT 2742 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405251810061.2742@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 06:55:35PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Cygwin has a 32k command-line length limit.

Cygwin doesn't, AFAIK, have any command-line length limit other than the
amount of memory available to store the command line.  Windows has a
limit but Cygwin shouldn't impose one.  That's why I advocate using
the "mount -X" option.  Not only does it work around these type of things
it should also speed things up slightly.

cgf

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/