Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/04/01/07:35:13
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.
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> 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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