Re: [RFA] Fix cygwin compilation failure due to nameless LOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT causes ntdll.dll to be missing

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 07:17:19 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> I would hate to see it all lost in the mailinglist archives, though.
> How about we turn this into either a comment in the code (my prefered
> option, most of the time), or a gdbint update (on the wiki), or even
> just a wiki page somewhere. We could open, if not already done,
> a section dealing with Windows-specific issues.

I can do that, please point me to the relevant places.

Btw, there's one other quite significant nuisance with using file
names that breach the 260-character limits: you can do almost nothing
with them, once they are created, except if you write your own
programs to deal with them.  It looks like none of the programs and
commands that come with Windows out of the box are able to handle such
file names.  You cannot delete them, neither from the Explorer nor by
using DEL from the shell prompt.  The Explorer silently and
inexplicably fails to copy directories which include such files.  So
you are basically stuck with them, unless you write your own programs
to delete/copy/rename them.  (I didn't try Cygwin: perhaps its file
utilities can also be a way out.)

So: children, don't try that at home!