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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:02:05 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Rsync over SSH dies before it is able to send with lots of files
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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.

I wonder if you're seeing the same bug as reported here:
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=111732750706203&w=2>. 
(How kind of him to post on FD and not even CC cygwin@)

Brian

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