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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:15:58 -0400
From: Reid Thompson <reid DOT thompson AT ateb DOT com>
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To: "Hommersom, Fred" <fhommers AT ugs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set
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Hommersom, Fred wrote:

>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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i would think that you should declare your env variables in either your 
.bashrc or your .bash_profile rather than in a .bat file.  It may solve 
your problem.

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