cant access to files more than 128 utf-8 symbol long names

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Dec 11 15:23:00 GMT 2013


On Dec 11 19:02, Mikhail Usenko wrote:
> I couldn't figure out how a POSIX filename passed to a Cygwin
> application running on the Windows system may become longer than
> NAME_MAX=1020 bytes if the maximum filename length in NTFS is 255
> UTF-16 symbols (i.e. 1020 bytes for the biggest 4 byte UTF-8 code
> unit)? 

Read my mail again.  NAME_MAX is 255.


Corinna

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