Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 18:58, Greg Freemyer wrote: I just read the release email for 1.7.0 In part it says: - Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working directory is a virtual path (like /proc, /cygdrive, //server), don't

Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: On Feb 25 18:58, Greg Freemyer wrote: I just read the release email for 1.7.0 In part it says: - Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is   longer than 260 bytes, or if the

Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: If the path is short, it uses the full long directory name as expected. If the path exceeds 260, it reverts to using the 8.3 names, thus giving a workaround that will allow you to descend deeper into a directory structure.

RE: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 18:36 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Another long pathname question On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Greg Freemyer

Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
to the mailing list? Oh, wait. This is the mailing list. Subject: Re: Another long pathname question Is that an echo? On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: If the path is short, it uses the full long directory name as expected. If the path exceeds 260, it reverts to using