Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set

Hommersom, Fred fhommers@ugs.com
Fri Sep 16 16:04:00 GMT 2005


 
>
> From your strace output, it looks to me like windows itself is
returning garbage when we ask it for the list of environment variables.
>
>If that is the case, we can guard against that but we can't make the
passed in environment useful, unfortunately.

Is it possible that 'asking for the environment' makes an error in some
mapping activity?
Anyway, a clear error is better as a garbled environment.


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