Accessing long filesystem paths using Python

Fri Nov 4 13:30:57 GMT 2022

Jep,
No success.
-----Original Message-----
From: marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, 4 November 2022 13:57
To: Fritjof Bornebusch <fritjof.bornebusch@prover.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Accessing long filesystem paths using Python
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 1:16 PM Fritjof Bornebusch <fritjof.bornebusch@prover.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I need to write files whose path exceed the maximum value of 260 characters.
> Using Windows paths, you can add \\?\ as prefix, e.g., \\?\C:\Users\foo\bar\<file://%3f/C:/Users/foo/bar/>....
>> However, it seems like this is not the case in Cygwin. When I use \\?\/home/foo/bar<file://%3f/home/foo/bar>, I get no file pointer back.
>> Does someone have a clue how I can bypass this?
>> Best,
> Fritjof
>
Have you tried POSIX style ?
/cygdrive/C/Users/foo/bar..