Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <43260C2E.8010707@ateb.com> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:15:58 -0400 From: Reid Thompson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hommersom, Fred" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set References: <67B13185D126644BA1AC929BE1F942AD748A1B@dekomplm001.net.plm.eds.com> In-Reply-To: <67B13185D126644BA1AC929BE1F942AD748A1B@dekomplm001.net.plm.eds.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Hommersom, Fred wrote: >My startup of cygwin is a .bat file with contents > >call bigsetup.bat >set HOME=C:\Data\locations\tc50_custy00 >c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i > >The file bigsetup.bat contains a huge amount environment variables. >For a medium number (~ 600) everything works fine >For a larger number the output is: >bash: /usr/bin/id: Resource temporarily unavailable >bash: /bin/find: Resource temporarily unavailable >bash: /usr/bin/sort: Resource temporarily unavailable >bash: /usr/bin/tr: Resource temporarily unavailable >bash: /usr/bin/uname: Resource temporarily unavailable >bash: /usr/bin/id: Resource temporarily unavailable > > >and for more variables no error messages show up but the HOME directory >is not correctly set. > >What is the underlying cause of this behavior? Is it possible to tune >bash or cygwin to cope with this large number of variables? >Thanks >Fred > >-- >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/ > > > i would think that you should declare your env variables in either your .bashrc or your .bash_profile rather than in a .bat file. It may solve your problem. -- 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/