Greg Haerr writes:
>
> : I have frequently experienced very bizare behavoir whenever the commandline
> : for a program gets very long, including hung processes, a hung system, and
> : some really messy crashes. I think this is the problem you are having with
> : wildcards. Somewhere the length of the commandline is not being checked,
> : and is overwriting some vital data. I have an entry for this problem in the
> : BUGS file in the source distribution, and on the website.
> :
>
> This problem is very related to the 64k-2 bug that I fixed in ELKS exec.
> All commandline argc/argv/envp stuff is copied above the initial SP, initial work
> by the Rob's libc code, and then by the kernel exec code. I looked through
> this stuff fairly carefully during that bugfix, and although complicated,
> it looked ok. I would suggest checking the glob generation code next
> at this point.
>
It is quite probably a shell related problem, but something weird is
definitly going on. Having said that, the problem caused by buffers not
getting unmapped, which has now been fixed, would have caused major problems
when copying an installation to harddisk, and very probably would cause the
system to lock after enough directories had entries added to them.
Al
