On 15.06.2010 20:23, David S wrote: > 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
The limit is imposed by Mono's io-layer and it's not configurable. If you need more than 260 chars that you could use Mono.Posix. > 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. You cannot use these escaped paths with MS.NET or Mono. Robert > > 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. >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
