Re: Protocol error: too many arguments

[Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>]

Ian Lance Taylor writes:
 > Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
 > 
 > > Dave Korn writes:
 > >  > > -----Original Message-----
 > >  > > From: gcc-owner On Behalf Of Andrew Haley
 > >  > > Sent: 12 October 2004 14:10
 > >  > 
 > >  > > Despite doing my branch commit in individual directories rather than
 > >  > > top level, I got this message again today:
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Protocol error: too many arguments
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Last time I saw this error it resulted in corrupted attr files on the
 > >  > > server.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > I'll try a fresh checkout once my commit is done.
 > >  > 
 > >  >   Should probably Cc overseers, as a heads-up.
 > > 
 > > Any mail I send to overseers bounces.
 > > 
 > > I wonder if anyone knows exactly what the limit is.  I'm guessing it's
 > > maybe a postcommit script that hits a kernel limit on the number of
 > > arguments to a command.
 > 
 > Current versions of the CVS server only accepts up to 10000 files in a
 > single commit.  I think this is a misguided attempt to limit memory
 > usage in the server.

10,000 files!  Eek!  Well, I didn't think I was committing that many.

Is that what the "Protocol error: too many arguments" message refers
to, do you know?

Andrew.