From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [217.72.192.75]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C046385C67E for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:42:56 +0000 (GMT) Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=permerror header.from=cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=cygwin.com Received: from calimero.vinschen.de ([24.134.7.25]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue106 [212.227.15.183]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MNccf-1pJGar36xH-00P3rx for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:42:54 +0100 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5F08CA80891; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:42:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:42:54 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Strange behavior when executing programs Message-ID: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1031eafe-fc3b-ab5b-6e63-b0f56c038332@razorcat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:9ebDbfQA66DETD4izZ55Q7Am4R/jMTx9/lLCnU90teTeqpzuIGs cWMQaAxPcbQQZ74c6NISa2ZSf2rGSVKkmlvlgg0aAKpEWmye8gtZSfmto2XfWXP8ujcBnWJ 49khrdJh6QbpViKDp8cfj/+WIO6CxnjbtVwQm6AzpzSooCis4KartfzL0pOfEJt3AF/zX9/ 1W7V3SFU6QthgRptbseIA== UI-OutboundReport: notjunk:1;M01:P0:TJTHHWUNLs4=;hsTqneRvg0WSPsauERS/+FeRF43 p9DOGMVtb0yCYLpnI1U3BhUlWE6KCtFjnzsAwiCHurmcVEbW5AG4Y+CnyK+ZZw3UwAzE39Wg6 zl508W222CxEJIsiLhNqChr/cQoWFTOWIY7DN508Q/nReSZaZy5fUcVg5vVdhNO5bZ07PS5Pd vsXphHm3wPQdq7DaUPbW4mAoOlh79Wqmi+gSIemWMmwORImAORZbyKA21cze6ht1k8PGwtCEj LSdqz+shosHU+StmLyT8nkwAOh0rzm6It2Rd52C9VxkCGYrgGFhvHlRYEbUy2pykBN3W/3rtT H0/bbfvh70XfwlkM1/BRLgAatUFa+m2AfRHunKQNgEmVtkfmMkuQSDE664LPzIgGMoFei3OLK C/dnBDrl+apW3ig8qkb289BvmHf9zyAKLf4JXKmPxpWKFL//B/Mli0CuL6ljUPJKgzP/SAtxX ACoAFuM+Fy9t+hrFOFfz+S+1DmqcADhjPOh0P4y4kVoHKBrf1mZPXo4KWgeVsWQ4ocpqPhghZ FioGSEBpOweSIooo3bAO+0et4/VoJYH7UZIPABkm3TQKM3sg+6cry4IraR6NaIIy/+7+yz/ob RoYIhXRXn8Zpl1AQWjTXN/gSRymSITEfFA4taMg1bbnWZRNTFZhMgEy61PXltk2ZJpFISjaVr u8Y2dlY2lnq2wQb68Mkgnn3lqjkr9vVvyftRR87KBA== X-Spam-Status: No, score=-95.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: 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