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RE: CWD and long paths
- From: "Jose A Fernandez" <jaf at kuriake dot com>
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:49:44 -0700
- Subject: RE: CWD and long paths
- References: <20071012113731.GG20400@calimero.vinschen.de>
Hi Corinna,
Transforming "CWDs > MAX_PATH" to "longest path prefix <= MAX_PATH"
seems unpredictable. If you mean discarding subdirectory terms from
right to left until the overall CWD becomes <= MAX_PATH, an app could
easily launch in the wrong CWD...
Regards,
Jose A. Fernandez
-----Original Message-----
From: Corinna Vinschen
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 4:38 AM
- We could support long CWDs and change the CWD to the longest path
prefix <= MAX_PATH as soon as we call a native app.