On 05/31/2011 09:31 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:23:28PM +0200, Michal wrote: > >> From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364989%28v=vs.85%29.aspx >> "The short form can be longer than the specified path." >> >> (so using len(longname)+1 as the length of the output buffer could >> end badly) > I assume that this may happen if the "long" name stem has less then 8 chars. > Indeed: > > $ cygpath -d 'a b.tex' > AB2E6D~1.TEX > > This can be easily taken into account. > If this has been sorted out to your satisfaction, please feel free to commit to branch.
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