On Apr 1 06:43, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 6:34 AM: > | Nope, they are not supported in snapshots; drive snapshots are nothing > | different than a normal drive (I assume you're talking about VSS / > | shadow copy snapshots for the whole drive, i.e. snapshot C:, it appears > | as read-only V:?). > > Nope. I'm talking about cygwin snapshots: > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots
That's right, but. <generic advice> The problem is that long path names are supported by the snapshot Cygwin DLLs, but not necessarily by the applications using it. Since the applications in the Cygwin net distro are still compiled under Cygwin 1.5.x, there's some (hopefully low) probability that applications are using static buffers of size PATH_MAX, which is defined as 260 in 1.5.x. So, right now, there's no guarantee that applications will be able to deal with long path names, unless they have been compiled under a Cygwin snapshot with all new header files installed. </generic advice> 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/
