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 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
