In message <87bnw12nuu.fsf@Rainer.invalid>you write: >tedno...@bellsouth.net writes: >> Just for the record, the suggested env var fix >> >> RCS_MEM_LIMIT=0 >> >> to "force stdio" does not work for me, but the > >That was never suggested as a fix, but to show that the problem occurs >with files much less than 256kiB size when forcing the code path through >stdio (which is what the "0" setting does). The RCS test suite passes >on Cygwin since it never actively tests this code path. > >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/142346 > >> RCS_MEM_LIMIT=10240 >> >> to allow 10megs of diffs does.. > >Which will fail once you happen upon a diff that gets that large. >
Ah, OK -- I was just looking for a fix or workaround and didn't read what the "=0" was supposed to do closely enough. I can't see ever getting up to 10M of diffs, but still I consider it an "existential" level bug for a version control system and think the package should be removed. It's almost as bad as if "ls -l foo" unlinked "foo". -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
