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Date: 	Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:40:04 +0300
From: Ville Herva <vherva AT niksula DOT hut DOT fi>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Accessing filenames with different charsets
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On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:30:19AM +0100, you [Chris January] wrote:
> Since most programs internally allocate a buffer of size MAX_PATH or
> PATH_MAX, they won't have enough room to store the full filename. 

True.

> Tt would certainly be possible to support this if a system call was made
> with a long filename, 

Problem here is is that you can't get the long filename from readdir() and
friends if the d_name field is limited. So I imagine things like tar and
rsync wouldn't work anyway. 

> but that would mean replacing all statically allocated path buffers (e.g.
> char buf[MAX_PATH]) with alloca (e.g. char
> *buf = alloca (strlen(inbuf) + margin)) which is more than trivial.

Yes, sounds quite tedious.

In this case one could imagine using the 8.3 name... 


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