Thats cool and everything, but I want to be able to go past the C# limit on path size. So while that was informative, it doesn't really answer my question. On Windows apparently you can call an API function and use "\\?\" as a prefix and have a path length of 32,767 or even have it unbounded in some cases.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Christopher David Howie <[email protected]>wrote: > On 06/15/2010 04:12 AM, David S wrote: > > While I personally have not hit the max character boundry, my > > application should probably know how to avoid that considering its > > nothing but IO operations. The only information I have found was a msdn > > page about Windows API calls I could use on > > windows > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx#maxpath. > > So, im guessing I have to find some Linux and Mac API calls and just > > deal with the different OSes? > > Yeah. Btw, Google rocks for that: > < > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/833291/is-there-an-equivalent-to-winapis-max-path-under-linux-unix > >. > > -- > Chris Howie > http://www.chrishowie.com > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers > > If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: > http://www.chrishowie.com/email-preferences/ > > PGP fingerprint: 2B7A B280 8B12 21CC 260A DF65 6FCE 505A CF83 38F5 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER > > This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is > addressed. If you have received this message it was obviously addressed > to you and therefore you can read it. > > Additionally, by sending an email to ANY of my addresses you are > agreeing that I am, by definition, "the intended recipient," and that I > may do whatever I wish with the contents of any message you send me, > unless a pre-existing agreement prohibits me from so doing. > > This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may > be included on your message. >
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