On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 5:35 PM Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote:
> 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 +1 from me. I propose to ignore Stefan until he learns his manners, is less cantankerous and maybe even volunteers to submit a patch if indeed there is a problem with the ACL handling (although, to be honest, I can hardly imagine it, Corinna being involved...). Michael -- 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
