On Jul 10 15:22, Charles Wilson wrote: > It seems that the st_nlink count is not updated for very long file > names. [...] > Any idea why "247" is a magic number?
It's a magic number because you installed Cygwin 1.7 into some path like C:\cygwin-1.7. In my case the magic number is 251 because I installed into C:\cygwin. The bug does not occur in link(), but in lstat(). Apparently I misunderstood what is returned by NtQueryInformationFile with FileAllInformation information class. It doesn't return the filename, but the pathname. The maximum buffer size of the datastructure I'm using has only room for 256 chars, which would be the maximum filename length. I changed the internal fhandler_base::fstat_by_handle method not to use the FileAllInformation info class at all, since we don't need the filename anyway in stat. Thanks for the report, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
