cygpath bug converting really long filenames

Fri Jan 24 18:29:00 GMT 2003

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
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