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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:34:44 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Rsync over SSH dies before it is able to send with lots of files
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:31:12PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 11 07:26, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Aha - I found something.  When I first ran the touch command above, I
>> stopped at about 8000 files (or about 400k for the subsequent echo command
>> line), which gave the nice "Argument list too long" error.  But when I
>> increased the number of files to 45000 (or about 2 meg of command line),
>> the same command failed with a segfault with bash 3.0, and gave no input
>> but left $? at 5 (matching EIO) on the alpha bash 3.1.  I will have to try
>> debugging it now, but it seems odd that exec() is dying with E2BIG in one
>> case and EIO when the input is even bigger.
>
>Can you reproduce this with the latest Cygwin snapshot?

Corinna chided me into making sure that exec*() was more bulletproof in it's
E2BIG detection so I've implemented better protection in the current snapshot.

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

cgf
(who's about to have a multitasking meltdown unless he drinks more coffee soon)

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