Ok. But whether it's reasonable or not, it can happen. For example, the project I work on can't be located in a Windows folder deeper than 37 chars long because Swig generates a particularly long Java file. It has no problems writing it, but further down the the build pipeline, javac dies when it tries to read it. 37 is the point at which the path length spills over from 260 to 261 which is the documented limit for *some* Windows file system APIs.
Dave On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Dave Ray <dave...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If the "blah blah blah..." is meant to represent a very long file name >> or path, my guess would be that you've bumped up against the Windows >> path limit (260 chars) which can manifest itself in weird ways. > > I assume that the file name cannot exceed any system limit, or else it > could not exist as such in the first place. Obviously the browser was > able to write the file to that directory with that name, after all; > the current state of the filesystem resulted from the same operating > system low level APIs rather than springing fully-formed from the brow > of Zeus. It would not make sense for those APIs to have one limit for > writing files and another, lower limit for reading them. Not even by > the sometimes-peculiar notion of what "makes sense" that they use in > Redmond. > > No, the problem is surely either at a lower level (drive damage?) or a > higher one (issues in Explorer, cmd.exe, and either java.io or > Clojure), or else it's an outright bug and not just an intentional > "limit". > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
