X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:57:19 -0400 From: "Lev Bishop" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cgywin filename with 255 character In-Reply-To: <44B3BA9E.70604@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8389af8b0603241937m62e9701y596bed40382bd6f0@mail.gmail.com> <4424BE59.9184F1E1@dessent.net> <44B3BA9E.70604@cygwin.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 7/11/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Windows places a limit on the number of ASCII characters in a file/path name. > It's approximately 260 characters. Cygwin path conversion may cut that down > a bit. More precisely, both the windows version of the path, and the posix version of the path, must each be less than 260 characters, including the 3 chars of 'C:\' for the windows version and the full path from root for the cygwin version. If you want to access long filenames via a cygwin path, make sure you mount the directory such that the cygwin mountpoint is at least as short as the windows path of the mountpoint. Lev -- 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/