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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:52:31 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygpath bug converting really long filenames
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:35:16PM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>The attached shell-script causes cygpath to malfunction by trying to
>convert a long string of z:s using 'cygpath -w'. It begins by trying "z",
>then "zz", and so on.
>
>When trying more than 240 z:s, the result becomes garbled. For example:
>
>246 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz????NTFS
>
>and at 249 z:s cygpath fails and says "error converting ...".
>
>Smells like a buffer overrun somewhere.

It's easy to test your olfactory insight by checking the code.

cgf

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