20060301 snapshot and later. sh hangs with very long command line

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 05:31:03PM -0800, Peter Rehley wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was building binutils using the cygwin 20060308 snapshot, and when  
>it did the check for "finding the maximum length of command line" a  
>sh shell goes to 99% cpu usage and doesn't return until I end the  
>process using task manager.
>
>I isolated the portion of the script that was hanging and was able to  
>repeat the problem.  The script hangs when it checks for a command  
>line of length 16384.  This happens every time I run the script, and  
>it is reproducible for me on at least windows 2000 and windows XP.   
>I've attached a test script.
>
>The problem doesn't happen with the 20060227 snapshot, but appeared  
>in 20060301 and later versions.  It is present in the 20060309 snapshot.

Thanks for the test case.  This should be fixed in the next snapshot.

cgf

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