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* FW: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?
@ 2008-04-02 10:04 Dave Korn
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From: Dave Korn @ 2008-04-02 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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James Abley wrote on 01 April 2008 22:26:

[ Weird.  I got a new pc and reinstalled quotefix and for some reason it
always got the headers wrong, quoting the list-owner email instead of the
sender's name.  Suddenly today it just started working right again.  Well,
I'm not complaining anyway. ]

> Previously:
> 
> 2008/03/07 20:47:05 [13024] rsync: readlink
> "/AppData/Local/Application Data/Application Data/Application
> Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application
> Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application
>
Data/Adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Cache/Search80/08695a9e61055471bbeac6c64c29faa3.idx"
> (in jabley) failed: File name too long (91)

  "File name too long"?  "File name too long"!  "File name too bloody
insane" more like if you ask me!  How many "application data"s does
microsoft need, for crying out loud?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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* Re: FW: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?
  2008-04-01 13:36 Dave Korn
@ 2008-04-01 13:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2008-04-01 13:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-talk

On Apr  1 14:36, Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote on 01 April 2008 13:48:
> 
> > 1.5.x, there's some (hopefully low) probability that applications are
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > using static buffers of size PATH_MAX
> 
> 
>   I got an ENOTCYNICALENOUGH parsing that line... :-)

Oops, sorry, I'm slipping.  How about

  there's some (rather high) probability that ...


Corinna

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* FW: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?
@ 2008-04-01 13:36 Dave Korn
  2008-04-01 13:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dave Korn @ 2008-04-01 13:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thread TITTTL'd!

Corinna Vinschen wrote on 01 April 2008 13:48:

> 1.5.x, there's some (hopefully low) probability that applications are
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> using static buffers of size PATH_MAX


  I got an ENOTCYNICALENOUGH parsing that line... :-)


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

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