Perhaps I do not understand it. I was talking about invoking cygin from native. The native environment grows far over 32 k. It just does not show up in bash. If I can help by testing the new snapshot: please supply some hints. Fred
>On the other hand, POSIX would claim that this usage should be failing with E2BIG, not EINVAL. >So it looks like Windows does have a hard limit at total environment size of 32k (in spite of their documentation never mentioning it), but that cygwin could do better at reporting the error when trying to invoke a native process. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
