Hello Chris, Saturday, May 04, 2002, 1:37:30 PM, you wrote:
CJ> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CJ> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CJ> Received: (qmail 28537 invoked by alias); 4 May 2002 12:35:44 -0000 CJ> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CJ> Received: (qmail 28534 invoked by uid 8); 4 May 2002 12:35:44 -0000 CJ> Received: from sources.redhat.com (209.249.29.67) CJ> by mail.syntrex.com with SMTP id smtpdHZvTJf; Sat, 04 May 2002 08:35:39 EDT CJ> Received: (qmail 14465 invoked by alias); 4 May 2002 11:34:40 -0000 CJ> Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm CJ> Precedence: bulk CJ> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CJ> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CJ> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> CJ> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CJ> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> CJ> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CJ> Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CJ> Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] CJ> Received: (qmail 14455 invoked from network); 4 May 2002 11:34:37 -0000 CJ> Received: from unknown (HELO mail8.svr.pol.co.uk) (195.92.193.213) CJ> by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 May 2002 11:34:37 -0000 CJ> Received: from modem-2033.cougar.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.231.241] helo=avacado.atomice.net) CJ> by mail8.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) CJ> id 173xmv-0006Wt-00 CJ> for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 04 May 2002 12:33:17 +0100 CJ> Received: from advent02 [127.0.0.1] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]); Sat, 4 May 2002 12:37:30 +0100 CJ> X-WM-Posted-At: avacado.atomice.net; Sat, 4 May 02 12:37:30 +0100 CJ> Message-ID: <00a201c1f360$133f73a0$0100a8c0@advent02> CJ> From: "Chris January" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CJ> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CJ> References: <011901c1f2fb$1fbf5330$0100a8c0@advent02> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CJ> Subject: Re: Bug in ln / cygwin1.dll CJ> Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 12:37:30 +0100 CJ> MIME-Version: 1.0 CJ> Content-Type: text/plain; CJ> charset="iso-8859-1" CJ> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CJ> X-Priority: 3 CJ> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal CJ> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 >> >When I run 'make -f Makefile.cvs' with QT3, I find that ln segfaults CJ> trying >> >to create a symlink. I've included the output of strace showing the CJ> problem, >> >output of cygcheck and also the stackdump ln produces. I can reproduce CJ> this, >> >so if you need any more information, please ask. The problem occurs with CJ> the >> >latest Cygwin CVS. >> >ln is 'ln (fileutils) 4.1'. >> >cygwin is 'CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ADVENT02 1.3.11(0.52/3/2) 2002-05-03 15:18 i686 >> >unknown' >> >> You're using a locally built version of cygwin. Please run it under gdb >> and pinpoint where the problem is occurring. You may find the techniques >> in how-to-debug-cygwin.txt useful. CJ> As far as I can tell, it's caused by the fact that more than 1024 arguments CJ> are being passed to ln and in exec.cc, argv is declared as 1024 elements. Is CJ> there any reason this limit shouldn't be upped to, say, 2048 elements? If CJ> not, can this change be made in CVS please. As far as I can remember the POSIX limits say that this has to be of size at least 4096. Just my 0.02 euro cents :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
