Jep,

No success.

-----Original Message-----
From: marco atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, 4 November 2022 13:57
To: Fritjof Bornebusch <fritjof.bornebu...@prover.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Accessing long filesystem paths using Python

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 1:16 PM Fritjof Bornebusch 
<fritjof.bornebu...@prover.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to write files whose path exceed the maximum value of 260 characters.
> Using Windows paths, you can add \\?\ as prefix, e.g., 
> \\?\C:\Users\foo\bar\<file://%3f/C:/Users/foo/bar/>....
>
> However, it seems like this is not the case in Cygwin. When I use 
> \\?\/home/foo/bar<file://%3f/home/foo/bar>, I get no file pointer back.
>
> Does someone have a clue how I can bypass this?
>
> Best,
> Fritjof
>

Have you tried POSIX style ?
/cygdrive/C/Users/foo/bar..

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