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From: marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: Fritjof Bornebusch <fritjof.bornebusch@prover.com>
Cc: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Accessing long filesystem paths using Python
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 13:56:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB8Xom_kn8VZm29ot251=85fp5m-O8y0kn3jL3rHObmXbKGZRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM6PR08MB4421530580BFE77F7508D890E63B9@AM6PR08MB4421.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 1:16 PM Fritjof Bornebusch
<fritjof.bornebusch@prover.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Have you tried POSIX style ?
/cygdrive/C/Users/foo/bar..

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-04 12:56 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
2022-11-04 12:56   ` marco atzeri [this message]
2022-11-04 13:30     ` Fritjof Bornebusch
2022-11-07  9:33       ` Corinna Vinschen

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