Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

[John Williams <jwilliams at itee dot uq dot edu dot au>]

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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