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From: Michael Wild <themiwi AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 08:15:27 +0200
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Subject: Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows
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Cc: Stefan Kanthak <stefan DOT kanthak AT nexgo DOT de>
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On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 5:35 PM Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru> wrote:

> Greetings, Stefan Kanthak!
>
> > Andrey Repin wrote:
>
> >> Greetings, Stefan Kanthak!
> >>
> >>> PS: <https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32-api>
> >>>     too states bloody lies:
> >>
> >>>     | The Windows subsystem only supports CWD paths of up to 258 chars.
> >              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >> 260 including drive letter.
>
> > WRONG, AGAIN!
> > 260 is the value of MAX_PATH, which accounts for the trailing \0, and
> > commonly used as
>
> > | char buffer[MAX_PATH];
>
> > I recommend to read
> > <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/fileio/naming-a-file>
> > VERY careful!
>
> >>>     The Win32 API supports pathnames with up to 32767 (Unicode)
> characters;
> >>>     this includes of course the CWD!
> >>
> >> CWD may be, but command processor does not.
>
> > Neither Cygwin's WRONG documentation nor I referred to the command
> processor.
>
> I think, this is an appropriate response to the underlying issue:
> https://xkcd.com/386


+1 from me.

I propose to ignore Stefan until he learns his manners, is less
cantankerous and maybe even volunteers to submit a patch if indeed there is
a problem with the ACL handling (although, to be honest, I can hardly
imagine it, Corinna being involved...).

Michael

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