Fork issues with long command lines and long $PATH

[Christopher Faylor]

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