> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:30:55AM +0100, Stuart Halliday wrote: > > Cygwin needs to drop support for Windows 98. > > They plan to do this 'sometime'. > > I wonder if defining MAXPATHLEN to a larger value would work or not?
Nope. > That value is supposed to represent the largest string that can be > passed to a file-handling OS function. If it is smaller than what > calls such as open() can handle successfully, increasing it will > tell rsync what the real limit is. The value I've seen under cygwin > is a pitiful 512 bytes or so, which is much smaller than the normal > 4096 of other systems. > > ..wayne.. >From what I've read on the Cygwin forums, it's the basic libraries that need re-writing to support long names. If you look on them, you'll see the reasons they state. -- Stuart Halliday This email is the property of ECS Technology Ltd. This company is registered in Scotland with company number 212513. VAT registered GB 761 7456 12 http://www.ecs-tech.com/ -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html