At 12:04 AM 5/30/2004, you wrote: >Hi all > >When I try to do an ls * with a directory with 5793 file in it We seem to >get a error message saying >6 [main] -bash 644 cmalloc: cmalloc returned NULL >Segmentation fault
Did you google? Here's a relevant thread from as recently as Tuesday: <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00839.html> >In Tru64 ( the OS that I am most familiar with ) also gets a similar message >arg list too long in 4.0x. After talking with one of the OS development team >on another mailing list says that there is a limit that is imposed by the >posix standard But in 5.1.x there is a kernel parameter called >exec_disable_arg_limit in the proc section that enables a process to accept >an unlimited number of args. Does Caging have a similar feature where by >the maximum number of args that can be passed to a process can be changed. I don't know. What's Caging and what relevance does it have to Cygwin? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/