On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:33:07PM -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote: >> From: cygwin-ownerX
Oh! Is that who it came from? >> [mailto:cygwin-ownerX Yes. Got that the first time. >> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 18:36 Hmm. It's 10:18PM here. >> To: cygwinX What? You're responding to email to the mailing list? Oh, wait. This is the mailing list. >> Subject: Re: Another long pathname question Is that an echo? >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: >>>If the path is short, it uses the full long directory name as expected. >>>If the path exceeds 260, it reverts to using the 8.3 names, thus giving >>>a workaround that will allow you to descend deeper into a directory >>>structure. >>> >>>Interesting trick. Maybe you should consider something similar for >>>cygwin. > >I read this as: When launching a non aware application..., silly me. I read this as you not understanding that we don't want to add hacks to accommodate uncommon corner cases which slow down Cygwin's path processing. Clever me. cgf -- 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/
