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On Dec 12 15:29, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote:
> > The problem is that resolved paths may become longer than MAX_PATH.
> 
> Oh...  But that'd be the same on any other OS that exceeds MAX_PATH, symlinking is going to help work around that,
> if the full path resolution was requested.
> 
> BTW, about MAX_PATH -- was it Cygwin's or Windows'?  If the former, can't it be enlarged?

Cygwin handles up to 32K paths for a long time, just like the Windows
kernel.

It's the native tools and the Win32 ANSI file-API still using MAX_PATH
as a path length restriction.


Corinna

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