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Re: Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set


On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:04:57PM +0200, Hommersom, Fred wrote:
>Perhaps I do not understand it.  I was talking about invoking cygin
>from native.  The native environment grows far over 32 k.  It just does
>not show up in bash.  If I can help by testing the new snapshot: please
>supply some hints.

AFAICT, Eric is getting sidetracked into issues that are not related to your
problem.

You can help by running the new snapshot under strace, like you did before.

cgf

>>On the other hand, POSIX would claim that this usage should be failing
>>with E2BIG, not EINVAL.  So it looks like Windows does have a hard
>>limit at total environment
>
>size of 32k (in spite of their documentation never mentioning it), but
>that cygwin could do better at reporting the error when trying to
>invoke a native process.

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