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pathname lenth maximums and cygwin conversions
- From: "linda w \(cyg\)" <cygwin at tlinx dot org>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:04:40 -0700
- Subject: pathname lenth maximums and cygwin conversions
If I have a windows path that is exactly 255(6?) characters
long, that is a valid windows path. But because cygwin
mangles the path from C:\foobar to C:\/... it exceeds the
allowed path length. I'm guessing that cygwin just uses
the 256 character limit of the underlying OS. Perhaps
cygwin should 'cut some slack' for its conversions --
things like converting c:\, in some cases to /c/cygwin.
Worse, if I remember, it just used \xxxx\xxx..., meaning
it assumed the drive. I could easily see cygwin conversions
driving a near 256 byte path over the limit...
-linda
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