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Date: 7 Sep 2001 09:34:04 -0400
Message-ID: <20010907133404.12659.qmail@lizard.curl.com>
From: Jonathan Kamens <jik AT curl DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
In-reply-to: <20010906172518.A5477@redhat.com> (message from Christopher
	Faylor on Thu, 6 Sep 2001 17:25:18 -0400)
Subject: Re: Figured out how to reproduce vfork/rsync bug! (proposed fix)
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>  Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 17:25:18 -0400
>  From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
>  
>  I don't see how rsync could be totally unoperational.  It seems to
>  be working ok for me, as long as I didn't set the large environment
>  variable.

Well, maybe the user who posted that message has a large environment
variable? :-)

Certainly, I don't think it's worth investigating any further until
he's tested a snapshot with your fix to see if it solves the problem.
I just sent him E-mail and told him this.

  jik