Another long pathname question

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>If the path is short, it uses the full long directory name as
>expected.  If the path exceeds 260, it reverts to using the 8.3 names,
>thus giving a workaround that will allow you to descend deeper into a
>directory structure.
>
>Interesting trick.  Maybe you should consider something similar for cygwin.

We really don't have to.  With all of Corinna's work in version 1.7,
Cygwin apps handle long pathnames fine.  One of the reasons for 1.7 was
to avoid clever hacks like this when we can.

cgf

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