X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:35:54 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: File name too long problem -- maybe fix coming? Message-ID: <20071219103554.GY18860@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200712012043.lB1KhE0C008215@dell2.home> <20071202123510.GJ30894@calimero.vinschen.de> <47684A22.8070104@tlinx.org> <476898B9.7050109@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <476898B9.7050109@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Dec 18 21:06, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Linda Walsh on 12/18/2007 3:30 PM: > > Is it possible the update quoted at the bottom will address or fix > > the path-len problem, mentioned below, in cygwin? > > Why not try out the snapshots, and see for yourself? But yes, it looks > like Corinna is slowly getting to the point where cygwin uses native NT > functions (which support absolute paths up to 32k in length), in such a > way that you can access relative path names whose absolute name happens to > be longer than PATH_MAX. And I'm sure that she will be adding openat() > and friends along the way, which is what coreutils and findutils (and any > other gnulib fts client) wants to use for optimal directory recursion. Maybe that goes without saying, after all this is an Open Source project, but I could really need some help here. The progress is extremly slow. There's just too much code to keep an eye upon. When I started I imagined we could release 1.7.0 in 2007 but as long as I have to do this conversion to unicode paths alone, it will take a lot more months. 2008? Well, maybe... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/