Bug in Cygwin bash?
John Williams
jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au
Thu Apr 3 03:10:00 GMT 2003
Randall R Schulz wrote:
> John,
>
> Yes, there's a limitation on the total volume of argument strings. All
> Unix systems have such a limit and so does Cygwin. The limits vary from
> system to system, though POSIX dictates a minimum value for this limit.
Anybody know the standard Cygwin limit off the top of their head? I'm
guessing 32K, given what I saw with mkdep
> For cases where the total list of files can be processed in pieces, the
> xargs command will do the divvying up for you, invoking the command as
> many times as needed to process all the arguments it reads from standard
> input. Check it out--it should be in your script-writing repertoire.
Yup - I used xargs in my solution to this problem. It seems not many
people build linux kernels under cygwin - I think if they did, this
issue I've found would have been reported earlier, because it's the
first step in the kernel configuration process.
Thanks for your reply,
John
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