Dave Korn wrote: > filenames. I *still* don't understand how it is possible for your users to > create files with names that are longer than the maximum filename length that > windows permits - this is a limitation of the windows OS and filing system, > not one that cygwin imposes.
As far as I recall the PATH_MAX of 260 applies to the ANSI versions of the file APIs, but if you use the Unicode version you can create names up to 32K UTF-16 characters in length. So it is entirely possible to create a file with a name that is too long to access via normal programs that aren't using the Unicode variants of the API functions (which includes Cygwin.) Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
