* Maximum # of program arguments
@ 2002-07-18 3:33 Mike Kasprzak
2002-07-18 3:38 ` luke.kendall
2002-07-18 7:08 ` Nicholas Wourms
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From: Mike Kasprzak @ 2002-07-18 3:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hey there,
I'm having problems linking with an ARM targeted GCC cross compiler. It
looks like I may have hit some sort of limit for number of character or
arguments to an executable (I keep getting "fork" errors, and child cant
find blah blah blah). I do have quite possibly over 16k characters I'm
passing as arguments to a program. Whats the maximum, and how can I
increase it?? :).
I'm running the latest (downloaded yesterday) CYGWIN, GCC's (3.1.1 and
2.9.x), MAKE, ...
Any help would be appreciated. :)
Thanks,
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* Re: Maximum # of program arguments
2002-07-18 3:33 Maximum # of program arguments Mike Kasprzak
@ 2002-07-18 3:38 ` luke.kendall
2002-07-18 7:08 ` Nicholas Wourms
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From: luke.kendall @ 2002-07-18 3:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mike Kasprzak; +Cc: cygwin
On 18 Jul, Mike Kasprzak wrote:
> find blah blah blah). I do have quite possibly over 16k characters I'm
> passing as arguments to a program. Whats the maximum, and how can I
> increase it?? :).
I wouldn't have thought that would work even under Unix.
Nor did I think you could increase it.
16k! Normally one uses a config file well before getting to that
point. Or provide an option to read input from stdin or something -
like xargs and cpio do ...
Sorry, I know that answer doesn't help.
luke
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* Re: Maximum # of program arguments
2002-07-18 3:33 Maximum # of program arguments Mike Kasprzak
2002-07-18 3:38 ` luke.kendall
@ 2002-07-18 7:08 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-18 9:20 ` Mike Kasprzak
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From: Nicholas Wourms @ 2002-07-18 7:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mike Kasprzak, cygwin
--- Mike Kasprzak <mike@swoo.net> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I'm having problems linking with an ARM targeted GCC cross compiler. It
> looks like I may have hit some sort of limit for number of character or
> arguments to an executable (I keep getting "fork" errors, and child cant
> find blah blah blah). I do have quite possibly over 16k characters I'm
> passing as arguments to a program. Whats the maximum, and how can I
> increase it?? :).
>
> I'm running the latest (downloaded yesterday) CYGWIN, GCC's (3.1.1 and
> 2.9.x), MAKE, ...
>
> Any help would be appreciated. :)
On WinNT/2K/XP the maximum length of the command line in cygwin is 8K.
For some reason, it is 256K in Win9X/ME. Still, you should probably limit
yourself to 8K for maximum portability.
Cheers,
Nicholas
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