I confirm such a bug. Patch resolves it.
still not commited to https://github.com/openvpn/openvpn ?
2013/11/19 Heiko Hund <heiko.h...@sophos.com>:
> Get the temporary path from the system as UCS-2 and convert it to
> UTF-8 and return that for internal use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Hund <heiko.h...@sophos.com>
> ---
> src/openvpn/win32.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/openvpn/win32.c b/src/openvpn/win32.c
> index 022eec5..b27e846 100644
> --- a/src/openvpn/win32.c
> +++ b/src/openvpn/win32.c
> @@ -996,19 +996,27 @@ set_win_sys_path_via_env (struct env_set *es)
> const char *
> win_get_tempdir()
> {
> - static char buf[MAX_PATH];
> - char *tmpdir = buf;
> -
> - CLEAR(buf);
> -
> - if (!GetTempPath(sizeof(buf),buf)) {
> - /* Warn if we can't find a valid temporary directory, which should
> - * be unlikely.
> - */
> - msg (M_WARN, "Could not find a suitable temporary directory."
> - " (GetTempPath() failed). Consider to use --tmp-dir");
> - tmpdir = NULL;
> - }
> + static char tmpdir[MAX_PATH];
> + WCHAR wtmpdir[MAX_PATH];
> +
> + if (!GetTempPathW(_countof(wtmpdir), wtmpdir))
> + {
> + /* Warn if we can't find a valid temporary directory, which should
> + * be unlikely.
> + */
> + msg (M_WARN, "Could not find a suitable temporary directory."
> + " (GetTempPath() failed). Consider to use --tmp-dir");
> + return NULL;
> + }
> +
> + if (WideCharToMultiByte (CP_UTF8, 0, wtmpdir, -1, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL) >
> sizeof (tmpdir))
> + {
> + msg (M_WARN, "Could not get temporary directory. Path is too long."
> + " Consider to use --tmp-dir");
> + return NULL;
> + }
> +
> + WideCharToMultiByte (CP_UTF8, 0, wtmpdir, -1, tmpdir, sizeof (tmpdir),
> NULL, NULL);
> return tmpdir;
> }
> #endif
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
>
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