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Re: command line length limitations

To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Subject: Re: command line length limitations
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 11 Apr 2000 07:52:39 -0700
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <m31z4dxiih.fsf@localhost.localnet> <200004110959.LAA29269@hawking.suse.de>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> I have never seen that myself.  Bash does not have any builtin limit on
> the command line length.

There seems to be something.  I'll have to get the sources for the
bash version which has the problems.

> Bash 2.04 is not the right solution, because it has a bug in that it
> refuses to run if there are environment variables with a hyphen in
> their name.  This means it is unusable for compiling glibc.

I'm using a test release of 2.04 which does not have this problem.

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