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Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
> On Apr  1 06:43, Eric Blake wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 6:34 AM:
>> | Nope, they are not supported in snapshots; drive snapshots are nothing
>> | different than a normal drive (I assume you're talking about VSS /
>> | shadow copy snapshots for the whole drive, i.e. snapshot C:, it appears
>> | as read-only V:?).
>>
>> Nope.  I'm talking about cygwin snapshots:
>> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots
> 
> That's right, but.
> 
> <generic advice>
> The problem is that long path names are supported by the snapshot Cygwin
> DLLs, but not necessarily by the applications using it.  Since the
> applications in the Cygwin net distro are still compiled under Cygwin
> 1.5.x, there's some (hopefully low) probability that applications are
> using static buffers of size PATH_MAX, which is defined as 260 in 1.5.x.
> So, right now, there's no guarantee that applications will be able to
> deal with long path names, unless they have been compiled under a Cygwin
> snapshot with all new header files installed.
> </generic advice>

I see.
Probably a reason why it fails for me.


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