Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:17:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: shell cmds crapping out with large numbers of files In-Reply-To: <20040525231016.GB1683@coe.bosbc.com> Message-ID: References: <018601c442a4$6c0197d0$4d1f1cac AT THEODOLITE> <20040525231016 DOT GB1683 AT coe DOT bosbc DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Tue, 25 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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 Whoops. Sorry, I should have said that "when invoked via the Windows mechanisms, Cygwin programs have a 32k command-line length limit". Unfortunately, that's exactly what seems to be happening in a default install (i.e., for most people). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/