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Hi. On sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 (i.e., -DSUNOS4), ARG_MAX is not defined anywhere, although <sys/limits.h> has the following line: #define _POSIX_ARG_MAX 4096 This is more a minimum imposed by POSIX than anything else. The proper solution revolves around this: ======================================================================== bash$ cat > x.c #include <unistd.h>

...Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org Reporter: orion at cora.nwra.com Created attachment 2454 --> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/attachment.cgi?id=2454&action=edit Patch to detect GLOB_NOSPACE and return better error message sftp uses remote_glob() with ls and get, which sets GLOB_LIMIT, so it is possible that a "get a*" command could exhaust the default limit. In this case you get the unhelpful error message: sftp> get ssw* File "/data/cora1/leka/AIA/ssw*" not found. With the attached patch you get a better error message: sftp> get ssw* Too many matc...

The problem is the file glob on line 344 in convert_subscriptions() # read updates from the directory my %updates; foreach (<$keyword_dir/*>) { This isn't going to pick up any files beginning with a dot, so most of the update files in the courierimapkeywords directory are going to be skipped.