Eric Blake schrieb:
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According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 6:15 AM:
| In Windows, path can have only up to 260 characters.
In Windows, the ASCII functions can only handle up to 260 characters. But
the Unicode functions handle more. You may be interested in trying a
snapshot, where longer filenames are (mostly) supported,
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:?).
and in
particular, your use case of rsync with names longer than 260 characters
should work using POSIX-style paths.
Like /cygdrive/v/some/longish/path/...?
Nope, it doesn't work, rsync skips these files and says "skipping overly
long name". So "Cygwin-expanded" paths have Win32-limitations; not UNC
ones, where longer names are allowed.
BTW, what a mess is Windows: several incompatible ways of specifying
paths etc.
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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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