I mentioned the long filename problem before, and Chris Wilson mentioned that I forgot one case: where the path as a whole is too long, even if each file/directory name is short.
I thought this could be solved by changing directories, but after thinking about it this would actually be a pain: I'd need to add either a check or a chdir before every file operation. And I'm sure I'd forget some places, and would be finding random (hard to diagnose?) errors after this. Also a path may be more than 2x as long as the limit. These long paths would require 2 or more chdirs to reach. So anyway, I'm curious when/how the long-path-problem is coming up. I wish rdiff-backup could successfully mirror all the files in this case, but don't see a way of doing this that's not error-prone. (Treating them the same way as long filename files and sticking them in a separate directory would be a bit easier.) -- Ben Escoto
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