php-windows Digest 14 Jan 2009 16:49:43 -0000 Issue 3555
Topics (messages 29121 through 29121):
Path length for files on NTFS
29121 by: Karsten Dambekalns
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Hi everyone.
Recently someone using our software told us about problems with
generated filenames being too long. I did some research on the net and
some quick tests on Vista Business, and it seems there is indeed still a
problem.
While NTFS supports path lengths of up to 32k characters, "most
software" still supports only 255 (or 260 on Vista) character filenames.
Since that includes the full path, we run into this problem with file
based caching filenames.
Since there are ways to use long(er) filenames, does anyone know if this
planned for PHP? Should it work? Is this a problem others also see?
Kind regards,
Karsten
PS: Those questions may sound stupid, but coming from a Linux/Mac
background this is simply a completely new problem to me. :)
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