Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Stefan Kanthak! > >> PS: <https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32-api> >> too states bloody lies: > >> | The Windows subsystem only supports CWD paths of up to 258 chars. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > 260 including drive letter.
WRONG, AGAIN! 260 is the value of MAX_PATH, which accounts for the trailing \0, and commonly used as | char buffer[MAX_PATH]; I recommend to read <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/fileio/naming-a-file> VERY careful! >> The Win32 API supports pathnames with up to 32767 (Unicode) characters; >> this includes of course the CWD! > > CWD may be, but command processor does not. Neither Cygwin's WRONG documentation nor I referred to the command processor. regards Stefan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple