On Dec 18 21:06, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Linda Walsh on 12/18/2007 3:30 PM: > > Is it possible the update quoted at the bottom will address or fix > > the path-len problem, mentioned below, in cygwin? > > Why not try out the snapshots, and see for yourself? But yes, it looks > like Corinna is slowly getting to the point where cygwin uses native NT > functions (which support absolute paths up to 32k in length), in such a > way that you can access relative path names whose absolute name happens to > be longer than PATH_MAX. And I'm sure that she will be adding openat() > and friends along the way, which is what coreutils and findutils (and any > other gnulib fts client) wants to use for optimal directory recursion.
Maybe that goes without saying, after all this is an Open Source project, but I could really need some help here. The progress is extremly slow. There's just too much code to keep an eye upon. When I started I imagined we could release 1.7.0 in 2007 but as long as I have to do this conversion to unicode paths alone, it will take a lot more months. 2008? Well, maybe... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
