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Interesting footnote about environment variables block
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: All <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:50:21 +0400
- Subject: Interesting footnote about environment variables block
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, All!
I just found this document:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds_shelloverview.mspx?pf=true
At the very bottom of it, you may find the note:
> The maximum total environment variable size for all variables, which
> includes variable names and the equal sign, is 65,536KB.
Which seems to be in disagreement with
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682653(v=vs.85).aspx
(And consequently,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682425(v=vs.85).aspx
)
I don't know, how it is applicable to Cygwin, but I find it interesting.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 14.02.2014, <11:31>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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