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From: Fritjof Bornebusch <fritjof.bornebusch@prover.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Accessing long filesystem paths using Python
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 12:15:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM6PR08MB4421530580BFE77F7508D890E63B9@AM6PR08MB4421.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM6PR08MB4421EE65314E815E8BA73753E63B9@AM6PR08MB4421.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

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Hi,

I need to write files whose path exceed the maximum value of 260 characters.
Using Windows paths, you can add \\?\ as prefix, e.g., \\?\C:\Users\foo\bar\<file://%3f/C:/Users/foo/bar/>....

However, it seems like this is not the case in Cygwin. When I use \\?\/home/foo/bar<file://%3f/home/foo/bar>, I get no file pointer back.

Does someone have a clue how I can bypass this?

Best,
Fritjof

       reply	other threads:[~2022-11-04 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AM6PR08MB4421EE65314E815E8BA73753E63B9@AM6PR08MB4421.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>
2022-11-04 12:15 ` Fritjof Bornebusch [this message]
2022-11-04 12:56   ` marco atzeri
2022-11-04 13:30     ` Fritjof Bornebusch
2022-11-07  9:33       ` Corinna Vinschen

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