Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/28/11:42:04
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Christian Matuszewski wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:22:38AM -0000, Hughes, Bill wrote:
> >> Sent: 27 February 2004 10:43 From: Christian Matuszewski
> >>cgf says:
> >>>Try the latest snapshot <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>.
> >>
> >>Thank you very much, now cygpath doesn't crash anymore.
> >>
> >>But is it necessary, that cygpath gives the error message: cygpath:
> >>error converting "/ddd...ddd" - File or path name too long ? When i
> >>think of cygpath as a tool to convert strings, then it should work with
> >>paths of arbitrary length. Is this possible?
> >
> >Unless Microsoft have changed something there is a maximum path length
> >of 255 on windows so cygpath working with arbitrary length strings is a
> >bit pointless.
>
> The problem is that some scripts which start a java program use cygpath
> to convert the contents of the CLASSPATH variable which is not
> restricted to some length.
> For example, the start script for ESCJava2 uses:
> setenv CLASSPATH `cygpath -p -m ${CLASSPATH}`
> I don't see why the length of the input or output of "cygpath -p" should
> be restricted. Sure, one could use sed or perl to convert a path list.
> But isn't it the "job" of cygpath to convert path lists, too?
>
> Christian Matuszewski
Christian,
The length of the full path is not restricted, but the length of each
individual component (directory/jar file) is. That's Windows for you...
Igor
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