X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:22:21 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Fork issues with long command lines and long $PATH Message-ID: <20110311152221.GA4645@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4D5BB1F1 DOT 1060603 AT smarterphone DOT com> <20110217102703 DOT GA30224 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4D7A16B4 DOT 1000802 AT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D7A16B4.1000802@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:33:56AM -0800, Daniel Colascione wrote: >On 2/17/11 2:27 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> There's no way >> to start a process and tell the Windows loader where you want the stack. > >True, but there's also no requirement to use the stack provided by the >loader. Why not always allocate a separate stack and switch to it early >in initialization? Taking control of the stack allocation doesn't mean that you will magically be able to allocate space in the same address range in a forked process. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple