CreateProcess was: bash: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> There will be some limits (especially with cygwin 1.5.18 - this is fixed
> in snapshots) but mounting the /bin and /usr/bin directories with -X
> should increase the command line length enormously over the Windows
> default of around 32K.

The MSDN docs for the lpCommandLine parameter to CreateProcess
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/createprocess.asp>
does indeed say the limit is 32K chars, but then there's this note that
for Windows 2000 it's MAX_PATH which is 260, right?  Why in the world
would 2k have such a smaller limit and all the over versions have a 32K
limit?  Or is this a typo?

Brian

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