X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org 9CD563852A52 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cygwin.com; s=default; t=1670859809; bh=yC1dnX3rZtv2ZVXebR7SAFs9gELKYA+y3cIy+b1y7KE=; h=Date:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive:List-Post:List-Help:List-Subscribe:From:Reply-To:Cc: From; b=G4VjxC/+jkhsezyADeuejax9weh2S1I0I7omJXJU0AHNEPAVfE0Q6H6IkLoR4JHrp u25/A+yLeu2Tin2sKsQtD3HM26rSSD3gFYlWIdfoDpl8YU7Ds7XoLam15C74kq0nbx vPMXYwd3MoTb0eUClPkoD/1gFF1gKypQQhvlHdpQ= X-Original-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:42:54 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Strange behavior when executing programs Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1031eafe-fc3b-ab5b-6e63-b0f56c038332@razorcat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:9ebDbfQA66DETD4izZ55Q7Am4R/jMTx9/lLCnU90teTeqpzuIGs cWMQaAxPcbQQZ74c6NISa2ZSf2rGSVKkmlvlgg0aAKpEWmye8gtZSfmto2XfWXP8ujcBnWJ 49khrdJh6QbpViKDp8cfj/+WIO6CxnjbtVwQm6AzpzSooCis4KartfzL0pOfEJt3AF/zX9/ 1W7V3SFU6QthgRptbseIA== UI-OutboundReport: notjunk:1;M01:P0:TJTHHWUNLs4=;hsTqneRvg0WSPsauERS/+FeRF43 p9DOGMVtb0yCYLpnI1U3BhUlWE6KCtFjnzsAwiCHurmcVEbW5AG4Y+CnyK+ZZw3UwAzE39Wg6 zl508W222CxEJIsiLhNqChr/cQoWFTOWIY7DN508Q/nReSZaZy5fUcVg5vVdhNO5bZ07PS5Pd vsXphHm3wPQdq7DaUPbW4mAoOlh79Wqmi+gSIemWMmwORImAORZbyKA21cze6ht1k8PGwtCEj LSdqz+shosHU+StmLyT8nkwAOh0rzm6It2Rd52C9VxkCGYrgGFhvHlRYEbUy2pykBN3W/3rtT H0/bbfvh70XfwlkM1/BRLgAatUFa+m2AfRHunKQNgEmVtkfmMkuQSDE664LPzIgGMoFei3OLK C/dnBDrl+apW3ig8qkb289BvmHf9zyAKLf4JXKmPxpWKFL//B/Mli0CuL6ljUPJKgzP/SAtxX ACoAFuM+Fy9t+hrFOFfz+S+1DmqcADhjPOh0P4y4kVoHKBrf1mZPXo4KWgeVsWQ4ocpqPhghZ FioGSEBpOweSIooo3bAO+0et4/VoJYH7UZIPABkm3TQKM3sg+6cry4IraR6NaIIy/+7+yz/ob RoYIhXRXn8Zpl1AQWjTXN/gSRymSITEfFA4taMg1bbnWZRNTFZhMgEy61PXltk2ZJpFISjaVr u8Y2dlY2lnq2wQb68Mkgnn3lqjkr9vVvyftRR87KBA== X-Spam-Status: No, score=-95.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NONE, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Corinna Vinschen Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com Sender: "Cygwin" On Dec 12 15:29, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > > The problem is that resolved paths may become longer than MAX_PATH. > > Oh... But that'd be the same on any other OS that exceeds MAX_PATH, symlinking is going to help work around that, > if the full path resolution was requested. > > BTW, about MAX_PATH -- was it Cygwin's or Windows'? If the former, can't it be enlarged? Cygwin handles up to 32K paths for a long time, just like the Windows kernel. It's the native tools and the Win32 ANSI file-API still using MAX_PATH as a path length restriction. Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple