environment is too large for exec

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Satish Balay!

> I'm seeing the following error from cygwin:

> "environment is too large for exec"

> I can try reducing the env - however - is there an option in cygwin to increase the current 'max env'?

As far as I recall, this is an OS limit.
Most often this is caused by an overgrown %PATH% variable. Inspect it and
cleanup from stuff unused/unnecessary. There's many ways to make executables
visible without adding them to %PATH%.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 22:24:03

Sorry for my terrible english...


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