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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:23:34 -0500
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Subject: Re: v2.03 refresh issue - passing 3K argument list [was Re: A new bug?]
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> So even fixing glob in a refresh would not make this work with bash 2.04?
> If so, maybe it's not worth trying to do this in a refresh...

Just #ifdef out the workaround in bash 2.04's dosexec.c:

*** dosexec.c.orig	Sat Jun 23 23:53:08 2001
--- dosexec.c	Mon Dec 24 11:23:08 2001
*************** static int go32_exec(const char *program
*** 655,660 ****
--- 655,661 ----
        int sl = strlen(pargv) + 1;
        unsigned long q;
  
+ #if 0
        /* Workaround for bug in globbing. glob() allocates a fixed buffer
           of 2000 bytes for its path buffer.  If an argument greater than
           2000 bytes is passed to a DJGPP program, that program may crash
*************** static int go32_exec(const char *program
*** 664,669 ****
--- 665,671 ----
          argv[0] = save_argv0;
          return -1;
        }
+ #endif
  
        if (check_talloc(sl))
        {