Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:52:31 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygpath bug converting really long filenames Message-ID: <20030124155231.GH8500@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:35:16PM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote: > >Hi! > >The attached shell-script causes cygpath to malfunction by trying to >convert a long string of z:s using 'cygpath -w'. It begins by trying "z", >then "zz", and so on. > >When trying more than 240 z:s, the result becomes garbled. For example: > >246 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz????NTFS > >and at 249 z:s cygpath fails and says "error converting ...". > >Smells like a buffer overrun somewhere. It's easy to test your olfactory insight by checking the code. cgf -- 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/