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From: Fritjof Bornebusch <fritjof DOT bornebusch AT prover DOT com>
To: marco atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: RE: Accessing long filesystem paths using Python
Thread-Topic: Accessing long filesystem paths using Python
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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 13:30:57 +0000
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Jep,

No success.

-----Original Message-----
From: marco atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com> 
Sent: Friday, 4 November 2022 13:57
To: Fritjof Bornebusch <fritjof DOT bornebusch AT prover DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Accessing long filesystem paths using Python

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 1:16 PM Fritjof Bornebusch <fritjof DOT bornebusch AT prover DOT com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to write files whose path exceed the maximum value of 260 characters.
> Using Windows paths, you can add \\?\ as prefix, e.g., \\?\C:\Users\foo\bar\<file://%3f/C:/Users/foo/bar/>....
>
> However, it seems like this is not the case in Cygwin. When I use \\?\/home/foo/bar<file://%3f/home/foo/bar>, I get no file pointer back.
>
> Does someone have a clue how I can bypass this?
>
> Best,
> Fritjof
>

Have you tried POSIX style ?
/cygdrive/C/Users/foo/bar..

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