On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:09:42PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Brian Mathis wrote: >>I've been running into problems with rsync and "too long" filenames. >>I've done the searching and know that it's an issue with the cygwin >>library not using the unicode system calls. Is there a timetable for >>when this will be changed? I know it's a pain, but so is not being >>able to use a lot of the great tools cygwin provides because of this >>problem. Anyway, just wanted to ask and also add my vote for support >>for this. Thanks. > > >It is one of the many enhancements in the forthcoming 1.7 series. And >it seems it is also an excruciatingly large task. There is no >timetable for 1.7 as a result. But many hands make light work. If you >and others you know have hands to lend, I know Corinna has a list of >tasks that can use them.
Actually, I don't want to speak for Corinna, but it seems like she is agonizingly close to getting this done. I would predict that there would be something to test in the next week or so. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
