Segmentation fault with ls command

[Larry Hall]

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?



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