Greetings, Stefan Kanthak! > 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. I think, this is an appropriate response to the underlying issue: https://xkcd.com/386/ -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Sunday, August 5, 2018 18:21:42 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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