Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ...

[Davide Libenzi]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:59, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> > Is it a Cygwin limitation? Don't they use the "\\?\" prefix for paths,
> > that enable them to go up to 32000 chars?
>
> \\?\ doesn't give you 32K path lengths, using functionW call variants
> does. And it's in the archives here...

Well, you need both actually:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/createfile.asp

What do you mean for "inside archives"? Does it mean that the version I
installed thios weekend already support paths longer than MAX_PATH?



- Davide