X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Xiaomin Wu Subject: Cgywin filename with 255 character Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:30:58 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <8389af8b0603241937m62e9701y596bed40382bd6f0@mail.gmail.com> <4424BE59.9184F1E1@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Hello, I have problem to touch a file with 255 charaters long filename in Cygwin client (MKS client works fine). After remove 2 of them, it seems work fine. Could you explain why? Thanks a lot! sh-3.1$ pwd /cygdrive/c sh-3.1$ touch c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12345678 9-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-1234567 89-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456 789-123456789-123456789-1234567.txt <== 255 charaters not include c:/ touch: cannot touch `c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12 3456789-123456789-123456789-1234567.txt': File name too long sh-3.1$ touch c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12345678 9-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-1234567 89-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456 789-123456789-123456789-123456.txt <== 254 charaters not include c:/ touch: cannot touch `c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456.txt': File name too long sh-3.1$ touch c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12345678 9-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-1234567 89-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456 789-123456789-123456789-12345.txt <==253 charaters not include c:/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/