cant access to files more than 128 utf-8 symbol long names

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Dec 11 17:01:00 GMT 2013


On Dec 11 11:30, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 05:21:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Dec 11 19:27, Mikhail Usenko wrote:
> >> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:23:39 +0100
> >> Corinna Vinschen <...> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Dec 11 19:02, Mikhail Usenko wrote:
> >> > > I couldn't figure out how a POSIX filename passed to a Cygwin
> >> > > application running on the Windows system may become longer than
> >> > > NAME_MAX=1020 bytes if the maximum filename length in NTFS is 255
> >> > > UTF-16 symbols (i.e. 1020 bytes for the biggest 4 byte UTF-8 code
> >> > > unit)? 
> >> > 
> >> > Read my mail again.  NAME_MAX is 255.
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > Corinna
> >> 
> >> Corinna, why not 1020?
> >
> >That's answered in my original mail.
> 
> Perhaps this will require reiteration and reclarification on Thursday,
> feline-permitting.

And it's not even my WJM week.  Can we move that to Thursday next week?


Corinna

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