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Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: "Stefan Kanthak" <stefan dot kanthak at nexgo dot de>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 17:04:41 +0300
- Subject: Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows
- References: <2B3187EFB48B477183C355EDF9660136@W340>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, Stefan Kanthak!
> PS: <https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32-api>
> too states bloody lies:
> | The Windows subsystem only supports CWD paths of up to 258 chars.
260 including drive letter.
> The Win32 API supports pathnames with up to 32767 (Unicode) characters;
> this includes of course the CWD!
CWD may be, but command processor does not.
I had a wonderful sex just a few hours ago trying to handle *.eml in a
directory and missing on 3 files over and over again, until I've listed
them with dir and see them cut in the middle.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, August 5, 2018 17:02:07
Sorry for my terrible english...
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