X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4554FE97.50406@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:35:03 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Rsync 2.6.9: File name too long (91) References: <3073f9ee0611101329t689c6a38p229df966c43d7628 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <3073f9ee0611101329t689c6a38p229df966c43d7628@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com JPL wrote: > Hi, > > We are having the same problem then the one you already answers last > year in: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00395.html > > Since the cygwin-1.5.21-1 specified that future release might not > support win_9x > Do you have any plan for supporting longer path/filename than the > actual 260 byte limit? > I think Corrina outlined the basics of what needs to be done quite well. This would be one place which would cause an incompatibility with non-NT- based platforms of course. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/