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On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:30:19AM +0100, you [Chris January] wrote: > Since most programs internally allocate a buffer of size MAX_PATH or > PATH_MAX, they won't have enough room to store the full filename. True. > Tt would certainly be possible to support this if a system call was made > with a long filename, Problem here is is that you can't get the long filename from readdir() and friends if the d_name field is limited. So I imagine things like tar and rsync wouldn't work anyway. > but that would mean replacing all statically allocated path buffers (e.g. > char buf[MAX_PATH]) with alloca (e.g. char > *buf = alloca (strlen(inbuf) + margin)) which is more than trivial. Yes, sounds quite tedious. In this case one could imagine using the 8.3 name... -- v -- v AT iki DOT fi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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