On Mar 10 21:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Mar 10 15:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
However, I don't understand what a mingw app would see when it is started
from Cygwin now. What would a standard windows app think that its cwd would
be if it's cd'ed deep into a 32K long path.
Right
On Mar 11 08:36, Brian Dessent wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Given that Cygwin changes to support long path names, I don't really
like to see new code still using MAX_PATH and Win32 Ansi functions
in the utils dir. I know that the Win32 cwd is always restricted to
259 chars. However,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Btw., you don't need to make the buffers MAX_PATH + 1. MAX_PATH is
defined including the trailing NUL. Existing code shows a lot of
irritation about this...
Oh, I wasn't even thinking of that... the reason I used MAX_PATH + 1 was
because earlier I had written
+
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Urgh. MAX_PATH is defined with trailing 0, SYMLINK_MAX is defined
without trailing 0 (like NAME_MAX). You should better change the
SYMLINK_MAX stuff back, afaics...
D'oh! 'Kay.
