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Subject: Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:46:58 +0200
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From: "Hommersom, Fred" <fhommers AT ugs DOT com>
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My startup of cygwin is a .bat file with contents
 
call bigsetup.bat
set HOME=C:\Data\locations\tc50_custy00
c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i
 
The file bigsetup.bat contains a huge amount environment variables.
For a medium number (~ 600) everything works fine
For a larger number the output is:
bash: /usr/bin/id: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: /bin/find: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: /usr/bin/sort: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: /usr/bin/tr: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: /usr/bin/uname: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: /usr/bin/id: Resource temporarily unavailable
 
 
and for more variables no error messages show up but the HOME directory
is not correctly set.
 
What is the underlying cause of this behavior? Is it possible to tune
bash or cygwin to cope with this large number of variables?
Thanks
Fred

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