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Re: 20040217 unhoses unzip!


On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:49:32PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:06:19PM -0500, Thomas L Roche wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:18:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> I've created a new snapshot 
> >
> >http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20040217.dll.bz2
> >
> >> which incorporates Pierre's much appreciated research into the
> >> unzip[-related] problem.
> >
> >and which WORKS! n == 1 (I'll check how it works for my boss, too),
> >but my setup script ran to completion for the first time in > 1 wk ...
> >(gotta catch up on a lotta work, which will probably block emacs
> >debugging until after 1.5.8 :-(
> 
> Hmm.  I really don't understand why unless you were unzipping *a lot*
> of files with long filenames.  There should have been something like
> 32MB of space to waste before you saw the problem.

I think they were talking of about 100,000 files. With two lost strings
per file, @ 150 chars each, that's pretty much it.

Pierre

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