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Dave Korn wrote:

> filenames.  I *still* don't understand how it is possible for your users to
> create files with names that are longer than the maximum filename length that
> windows permits - this is a limitation of the windows OS and filing system,
> not one that cygwin imposes.

As far as I recall the PATH_MAX of 260 applies to the ANSI versions of
the file APIs, but if you use the Unicode version you can create names
up to 32K UTF-16 characters in length.  So it is entirely possible to
create a file with a name that is too long to access via normal programs
that aren't using the Unicode variants of the API functions (which
includes Cygwin.)

Brian

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