Cgywin filename with 255 character
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Tue Jul 11 14:50:00 GMT 2006
Xiaomin Wu wrote:
> Hello,
>> I have problem to touch a file with 255 charaters long filename in Cygwin
> client (MKS client works fine). After remove 2 of them, it seems work fine.
> Could you explain why? Thanks a lot!
>> sh-3.1$ pwd
> /cygdrive/c
>> sh-3.1$ touch c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12345678
> 9-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-1234567
> 89-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456
> 789-123456789-123456789-1234567.txt <== 255 charaters not include c:/
> touch: cannot touch `c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-1234567.txt': File name too long
>> sh-3.1$ touch c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12345678
> 9-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-1234567
> 89-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456
> 789-123456789-123456789-123456.txt <== 254 charaters not include c:/
> touch: cannot touch `c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12
> 3456789-123456789-123456789-123456.txt': File name too long
>>> sh-3.1$ touch c:/file123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12345678
> 9-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-1234567
> 89-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456
> 789-123456789-123456789-12345.txt <==253 charaters not include c:/
>
Windows places a limit on the number of ASCII characters in a file/path name.
It's approximately 260 characters. Cygwin path conversion may cut that down
a bit.
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