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On Aug 22 17:46, Brian Dessent wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > There will be some limits (especially with cygwin 1.5.18 - this is fixed > > in snapshots) but mounting the /bin and /usr/bin directories with -X > > should increase the command line length enormously over the Windows > > default of around 32K. > > The MSDN docs for the lpCommandLine parameter to CreateProcess > <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/createprocess.asp> > does indeed say the limit is 32K chars, but then there's this note that > for Windows 2000 it's MAX_PATH which is 260, right? Why in the world > would 2k have such a smaller limit and all the over versions have a 32K > limit? Or is this a typo? They made the same typo also in the CreateProcessAsUser and CreateProcessWithLogonW man pages, but not in CreateProcessWithTokenW. It seems to be a typo. I tried to start Cygwin's /bin/echo from a cmd shell and it got the full command line of ~500 chars. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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