Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/01/20/05:47:32
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aurangzeb M. Agha
> Dave --
>
> That worked! Thank goodness, I thought I'd have to live with
> an unwanted folder forever.
Hooray!
> I'm curious--was what you suggested possible just because I was lucky?
> What if the names of the files had been even longer; would
> your suggestion not have worked?!
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Zeb
Yep, it could have been the case. It's a known class of bugs in software:
when special characters need to be escaped, the effect of doing so is to
lengthen any string, such as a filename, that contains them, thereby
sometimes making them longer than some presupposed limit somewhere in the
software or operating system. (It's also a known cause of network security
holes through buffer overflows in server software.) If there had been a
whole load more at and ampersand signs in that filename, you might have had
to get *real* tricky with it :) Fortunately, reducing the left-hand part of
the path did the job. Glad to help!
cheers,
DaveK
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