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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:43:35 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Error in access() with long file names
Message-ID: <20010711004335.C8578@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010710151436.02adfa10@pop3.cris.com>; from rrschulz@cris.com on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:16:31PM -0700

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:16:31PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Corinna,
> 
> The question remains, shouldn't the response from the access() call 
> indicate that the named file is not readble (or accessible in any way), 
> since in fact it is not?

You're right. I'm using the latest developers snapshot and the result
is

/home/corinna[103]$ ./y
aaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbccccccccccddddddddddeeeeeeeeeeffffffffffgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh
iiiiiiiiiijjjjjjjjjjkkkkkkkkkkkllllllllllmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooppppppppp
pqqqqqqqqqqrrrrrrrrrrssssssssssttttttttttuuuuuuuuuuvvvvvvvvvvwwwwwwwwwwxxxxxxxxx
xyyyyyyyyyyzzzzzzzzzz01234567890:/ is NOT readable

So the problem is solved in the next Cygwin version.

Corinna

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