Re: Cgywin filename with 255 character

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Xiaomin Wu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have problem to touch a file with 255 charaters long filename in Cygwin 
> client (MKS client works fine). After remove 2 of them, it seems work fine. 
> Could you explain why? Thanks a lot!
>
> sh-3.1$ pwd
> /cygdrive/c
>
> sh-3.1$ touch c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12345678
> 9-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-1234567
> 89-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456
> 789-123456789-123456789-1234567.txt   <== 255 charaters not include c:/
> touch: cannot touch `c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-1234567.txt': File name too long
>
> sh-3.1$ touch c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12345678
> 9-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-1234567
> 89-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456
> 789-123456789-123456789-123456.txt     <== 254 charaters not include c:/
> touch: cannot touch `c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456.txt': File name too long
>
>
> sh-3.1$ touch c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12345678
> 9-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-1234567
> 89-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456
> 789-123456789-123456789-12345.txt    <==253 charaters not include c:/

Windows places a limit on the number of ASCII characters in a file/path name. 
 It's approximately 260 characters.  Cygwin path conversion may cut that down
a bit.


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