-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Morten Kjarulff on 1/26/2006 4:20 AM: > I tried to google it, and it seems that the limit is is MAXPATHLEN. It also > seems that MAXPATHLEN is smaller under cygwin than under other systems. > > Is this true?
Almost. The name is PATH_MAX, not MAXPATHLEN. > What is the limit? Look in /usr/include/limits.h. 260 (although a few Windows calls are even more restrictive, such as directory names have a max of 248 or so in order to allow an 8.3 filename within the directory). > Is there a way that I can come around it (other than renaming my files ;-)? Not on Windows 9x machines - it is a fundamental limitation of the ASCII Windows system calls. And even on Windows NT machines, it would be a MAJOR patch to cygwin to use the Unicode Windows system calls (where your limit increases to 32k, but it is still a limit); read the list archives, this topic has come up before. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD2NTS84KuGfSFAYARAr+3AKCGgurUGgSqBuzFL42qf/hUT4Dq/wCgwAS0 NgueeH5B+dk8woJOQ1OqFdM= =eL4P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/