X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:37:02 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Long file names not working in cygwin-1.7.0-48 Message-ID: <20090529183702.GA28223@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20090520135009.5D9C3BD0@resin18.mta.everyone.net> <4A1DA33D.1080406@cygwin.com> <20090528051242.GA13874@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) 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 Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:39:23AM -0700, jpa wrote: >"Christopher Faylor" wrote: >>On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:11:55PM -0700, jpa wrote: >>># Create long directory path fails (255 a's/255 b's mkdir -p /tmp/[SNIP >>>long dir name]> >>Thanks for the test case. This should be fixed in the next snapshot >>which is building now. I'll be in bed before it finishes but if there >>are problems uploading it I'll restart it tomorrow. >> >>http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ >> >>Btw, the second set of "b"'s isn't necessary. A single b would trigger >>the problem. > >Thank you. This problem has been fixed with the 5-28-2009 snapshot. >Unfortunately I now have a different but probably related problem. I >am unable to create a file or directory with a period as the first >character. > >mkdir .test returns "/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `.test': No >such file or directory" l:\>bash bash-3.2$ cd /tmp bash-3.2$ mkdir .test bash-3.2$ exit exit >However this only happens in my cwrsync installation which uses cygwin. >Rolling back to 1.7.0-48 allows periods at the beginning. In my test install >of cygwin on a WinXP box I can't trigger the error. Sorry but I don't care about cwrsync. If you can generate a test case for a bona fide Cygwin installation, I'll investigate. FWIW, it is hard to believe that the change I made for this would affect files beginning with dots in any way. cgf -- 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/