From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS update fails Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:06:14 +0200 Message-ID: <85bqd0ma49.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87abslxlgd.fsf@escher.local.home> <876439xa39.fsf@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187820018 2688 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2007 22:00:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Berman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 23 00:00:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1INyFI-0007yF-G0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INyFI-0003jj-4D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:00:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INyEt-0003XW-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INyEp-0003Vh-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:59:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INyEp-0003VW-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:59:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1INyEo-00048J-8l; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:59:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.14]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA7715B6E0; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:59:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.51]) by mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFFF114373; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:59:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-060-116.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.60.116]) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD08137C1; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:59:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 937101C36605; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:06:15 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 21 Aug 2007 19\:24\:37 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/4032/Wed Aug 22 22:15:27 2007 on mail-in-11.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76994 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > Running cvs update ... > > error in process sentinel: cvs-update-header: Invalid regexp: "Regular expression too big" > > error in process sentinel: Invalid regexp: "Regular expression too big" > > Is it constructing a regexp from all the file names? If so, > that would indirectly put a limit on the number of file names. > It would be good to rewrite it to use another method. Using a hash table would seem to be both more efficient and safe against size. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum