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Re: Using du.exe to calculate disk usage on a Microsoft cluster server
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:03:03 -0700
- Subject: Re: Using du.exe to calculate disk usage on a Microsoft cluster server
- References: <00ec01c6a1dd$ab40c1b0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Dave Korn wrote:
> filenames. I *still* don't understand how it is possible for your users to
> create files with names that are longer than the maximum filename length that
> windows permits - this is a limitation of the windows OS and filing system,
> not one that cygwin imposes.
As far as I recall the PATH_MAX of 260 applies to the ANSI versions of
the file APIs, but if you use the Unicode version you can create names
up to 32K UTF-16 characters in length. So it is entirely possible to
create a file with a name that is too long to access via normal programs
that aren't using the Unicode variants of the API functions (which
includes Cygwin.)
Brian
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