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Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?
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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