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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:05:06 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
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On Jun  8 18:20, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> (I don't necessarily expect that there will be any interest
> in my solution, but I thought that I should mention it just
> in case. As I said, there are other ways to deal with this
> without imposing path length limitations, and I don't even
> know how much of a concern such limits are in general.)

Of course we would be glad to have more people working on the DLL (and
sign the copyright assignment, sigh), but what you wrote sounds somewhat
like a special solution which requires lots of new "if (is_ntfs)" tests,
roughly.  Sure it only works on file systems supporting that (which is
NTFS, basically), but the code already contains way too many different
routes due to OS/FS differences.

Our vague ideas how to implement this are more along the lines of "always
use the fooW (on Win32 level) or _U (on NT level) functions and drop back
to something else only on 9x, if necessary".  This would also automatically
cover the managed mounts in terms of path length.


Corinna

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