From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33781: tramp tests abort on hydra Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:46:17 -0500 Message-ID: <05bm5g5bx2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <5jimzsj75r.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87bm5k54js.fsf@gmx.de> <6ty38nk1xo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87bm5j3r9d.fsf@gmx.de> <87d0pyeho8.fsf@gmx.de> <87r2edb8f6.fsf@gmx.de> <87efad1cjt.fsf@igel.home> <87sgysa4fl.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1545327907 24097 195.159.176.226 (20 Dec 2018 17:45:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:45:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: Andreas Schwab , 33781@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 20 18:45:03 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ga2Na-00068j-6B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:45:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ga2Pg-0007tG-H0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:47:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44950) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ga2Pa-0007sw-Im for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:47:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ga2PY-00012E-EE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:47:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:52444) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ga2PW-0000z3-Cc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:47:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ga2PW-0008W7-8E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:47:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:47:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33781 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: fixed Original-Received: via spool by 33781-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33781.154532799432701 (code B ref 33781); Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:47:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33781) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Dec 2018 17:46:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56702 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ga2P4-0008VM-08 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:46:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35144) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ga2P0-0008V3-8S for 33781@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:46:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ga2Ou-0000DO-Er for 33781@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:46:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ga2Oo-00005P-Pm; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ga2On-0007Xz-KE; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:46:17 -0500 X-Spook: Delays Mud slide DES Prevention Medco BRLO Basque X-Ran: +"}ul0Y938$2m'Oyx'.uQaX0Wxf![sx[LnL6hjH0qEg0##!gOQBl6AEpQd*<@|}7dIB<(o X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87sgysa4fl.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:16:46 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:153643 Archived-At: Great job, thanks for fixing it! Michael Albinus wrote: > Yes, PATH_MAX by definition is the maximum length of a file path. But I > still have the feeling it is also involved in setting the $PATH > environment variable. As Glenn did report, there are problems on hydra > when setting $PATH to a string longer than 4096 characters. No, I did not report that. PATHs longer than 4096 work fine on hydra.nixos.org, and on my local machine. What did not work was tramp trying to pass a long string to a process. It is an Emacs-specific problem. > It doesn't seem to be related to the shell limit of input lines; Glenn > reported that 'getconf LINE_MAX' returns 2048. I think LINE_MAX has no relevance here. Eg: getconf LINE_MAX # -> 2048 echo $(seq 1 10000) | wc -w # -> 10000 echo $(seq 1 400000) | wc -c # -> 2688895 echo $(seq 1 500000) # -> bash: /usr/bin/echo: Argument list too long