Re: New snapshot available which *may* fix unzip long filenames problem

["Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>]

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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