On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:13:52AM -0800, Mark Wood-Patrick wrote: > I am getting the error message "File or path name too long" due to the > insanely long names my companies build system generates. Is the maximum > length of a path hardcoded in cygwin. Is there any way to configure cygwin > to support longer filenames?
It's a restriction given by the ANSI function calls in Windows, resp. a restriction of 9x/Me. These functions don't take paths longer than MAX_PATH as parameter. On NT/2K/XP we *could* use the Unicode functions which allow paths up to 32000 characters but that requires massively changes to the Cygwin path handling code. That will not happen soon as long as we don't have somebody volunteering for creating the required patches. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
