X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49A459F9.2070106@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:35:05 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090101 Remi/2.0.0.19-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: file name too long References: <37bd06460902141000s4c1adfa8gb7c0ab135be210f9 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <37bd06460902241224p2b44d828id6e15d4c4cc453b8 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <37bd06460902241224p2b44d828id6e15d4c4cc453b8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Paul Cantalupo wrote: > Hello, > > I updated my cygwin installation to 1.5.25-15 but I'm still getting > 'file name too long' errors when trying to extract a .tgz archive that > contains some really long pathnames. > > Here is an example of one of the errors: > > tar: S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_HGblast/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_file7.HGblast.out: > Cannot open: File name too long > > > This name is only 201 chars long; I thought Windows max file length > was 255. Interestingly, even some of the files that 'tar' can extract, > 'ls' returns an error when I try to see the contents of the directory: > > ls: cannot access > S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_file0.fa: > File name too long > > I found this (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2008-01/msg00000.html) > discussion of what seems to be the same problem that I am having. So, > was a fix ever implemented? Is there a workaround to this problem > other than installing Linux? Yes, it was implemented for the upcoming Cygwin 1.7 release, now in release testing: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/