On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:14:48PM +0200, Michael Stahl wrote: > hi all, > > so we've got this patch to libxml2 2.7.6 in the LibreOffice code base, > inherited from OOo. it fixes a definite problem, which is that Windows > has a rather low maximum path length restriction, and there is a special > trick on NT whereby path names can be prefixed with "\\?\", in which > case the maximum length is 32k, which ought to be sufficient even for > bloated office suites :) > > i'll attach the patch to the xmlCanonicPath function. note that i > didn't write this and am by no means an expert on either Microsoftean > platforms or libxml so maybe it's not the best way to do it. well, the > strlen call in there looks superfluous to me.
Yeah, I finally applied this. Those paths can't be converted to URIs anyway so even if it's weird let's keep it. i cleaned up the code and pushed this, thanks ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
