This caused Cygwin to run dumper.exe which pointed to a bug in cygpath.cc.
$ cygpath -p -w 'gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg'
gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
I am attaching a patch that seems to have fixed the issue.
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Index: cygpath.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/utils/cygpath.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.59
diff -d -u -r1.59 cygpath.cc
--- cygpath.cc 16 Jan 2010 10:25:58 -0000 1.59
+++ cygpath.cc 13 Feb 2010 01:34:09 -0000
@@ -772,8 +772,6 @@
buf = get_long_name (tmp = buf, len);
free (tmp);
}
- /* buf gets moved into the array so we have to set tmp for later
- freeing beforehand. */
tmp = buf;
if (strncmp (buf, "\\\\?\\", 4) == 0)
{
@@ -782,13 +780,13 @@
len = 6;
if (strlen (buf) < MAX_PATH + len)
{
- buf += len;
+ tmp += len;
if (len == 6)
- *buf = '\\';
+ *tmp = '\\';
}
}
if (mixed_flag)
- convert_slashes (buf);
+ convert_slashes (tmp);
}
}
@@ -796,7 +794,7 @@
if (buf2)
free (buf2);
if (buf)
- free (tmp);
+ free (buf);
}
static void
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