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From: Wojciech Galazka <wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl>
To: "'djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>,
   sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
Subject: RE: fixpath patch (fixes rm -rf disaster, retains deep directory 
	usage)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:23:43 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:35 AM
> To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
> Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: fixpath patch (fixes rm -rf disaster, retains deep
> directory usage)
> 
> 
> > From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:03:45 -0500 (CDT)
> > 
> > Here's an alternative patch which also seems to work on 
> Win2K.  It allows
> > you to use long directories without any problems I've 
> observed.  It's a
> > quick change to fixpath (which is called a bunch of places) 
> to not call
> > getcwd and use truename instead.
> 
> We cannot simply replace getcwd with _truename here: _truename returns
> a UNC for directories on networked drives, and some DOS calls on some
> supported systems, notably on plain DOS, don't support UNC's.
> 
> _fixpath uses getcwd precisely for this reason.
> 

I think we should watch int 21h, ah = 3bh (set current directory) and if the
path is larger than 64 characters then return error