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Re: Interesting footnote about environment variables block
- From: Peter Rosin <peda at lysator dot liu dot se>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:49:12 +0100
- Subject: Re: Interesting footnote about environment variables block
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- References: <1052349406 dot 20140214115021 at mtu-net dot ru>
On 2014-02-14 08:50, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, All!
>
> I just found this document:
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds_shelloverview.mspx?pf=true
>
> At the very bottom of it, you may find the note:
>
>> The maximum total environment variable size for all variables, which
>> includes variable names and the equal sign, is 65,536KB.
>
> Which seems to be in disagreement with
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682653(v=vs.85).aspx
> (And consequently,
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682425(v=vs.85).aspx
> )
>
> I don't know, how it is applicable to Cygwin, but I find it interesting.
First one is for unicode, the other two for ansi. My guess anyway...
Cheers,
Peter
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