cygpath bug converting really long filenames

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:35:16PM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>The attached shell-script causes cygpath to malfunction by trying to
>convert a long string of z:s using 'cygpath -w'. It begins by trying "z",
>then "zz", and so on.
>
>When trying more than 240 z:s, the result becomes garbled. For example:
>
>246 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz????NTFS
>
>and at 249 z:s cygpath fails and says "error converting ...".
>
>Smells like a buffer overrun somewhere.

It's easy to test your olfactory insight by checking the code.

cgf

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/