[cvsnt] Re: New CVS Notification Program

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:13:12 -0800, "Terris Linenbach"
<nospam at nospam.com> wrote:

>This is a good example of what the knobs are for.  CVSNotify does the same
>but it provides control over how big (kb) a message can be, and splits up
>large messages across multiple messages into readable (non-arbitrary)
>chunks.  This is useful for tagging an entire large repository and posting
>the evidence to a newsgroup.  Newsgroups typically have message size limits.
>
But the case here was that CVSNT generated an error in the called
process when the command line contents got above a certain value
(about 4K). This happened on modules with many files with long names
and is not something you can handle in the called program itself,
since it is an operating system deficiency.
But after Tony moved the info over to StdIn the problem went away.


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)