[EXTERNAL] Re: Strange behavior when executing programs

Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] lavr@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mon Dec 12 15:29:59 GMT 2022


> The problem is that resolved paths may become longer than MAX_PATH.

Oh...  But that'd be the same on any other OS that exceeds MAX_PATH, symlinking is going to help work around that,
if the full path resolution was requested.

BTW, about MAX_PATH -- was it Cygwin's or Windows'?  If the former, can't it be enlarged?

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI



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