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Re: New snapshot available which *may* fix unzip long filenames problem
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:56:52 -0500
- Subject: Re: New snapshot available which *may* fix unzip long filenames problem
- References: <20040217201833.GA26980@redhat.com>
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:18:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I've created a new snapshot which incorporates Pierre's much appreciated
> research into the unzip problem.
>
> Thanks to Pierre and Igor for looking into things at this depth.
>
> I'm rather torn between fixing build_fh_name and keeping the destructor.
> The destructor is cleaner but slower and its in a part of the code that
> gets called *a lot*.
>
> If it works, I'll probably keep the destructor around for 1.5.8 and
> revisit in some later cygwin version.
Good plan. After looking into it, I now think we could get rid of the
normalized path storage entirely. It's mostly used in get_name(), which is
90% for printf(). A large part of the remaining 10% could use
get_win32_name instead (and be faster). A few oddball cases need to be
looked into.
Pierre
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