Re: Figured out how to reproduce vfork/rsync bug!

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:28:36AM -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> I found some time yesterday (where "found some time" is defined as
> "stayed up until 1:30am") working on tracking this down further.  I've
> discovered that it appears to be related to a very long environment
> variable.  In particular, if you put this script into a file and run
> it:
> 
>   #!/bin/sh
> 
>   export 'INCLUDE=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>   rsync /tmp/foo/ /tmp/bar/
> 
> You'll get the Cygwin failure I've previously reported, but if you
> delete one 'x' from the end of the variable setting in the script, the
> failure goes away.

I just tried it desperately another 100 times. I can't reproduce it.
I added x's randomly to make INCLUDE longer than 10 lines, more than
800 x's. Nothing happens.

Corinna

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