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On Dec 26 22:57, Denis Corbin wrote: > On 25/12/2015 01:04, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > >>> First, I have read the FAQ and this mailing archive :) > >>> > [..] > > > >> NAME_MAX is 255. On Windows this is the number of UTF-16 chars > >> unfortunately. On POSIX systems (as on Cygwin) this is the > >> number of bytes. Long UTF-16 strings in cyrillic take twice as > >> much UTF-8 chars as it has UTF-16 chars, so NAME_MAX in utf-8 > >> cyrillics translates into a maximum of 127 UTF-16 chars. > > Ok, I understand. Thanks for your explanation. > > > > > Aren't POSIX restrictions are a bit different? Namely 128 bytes > > per path element and 4096 bytes for file name? > > Seen the sample file name it seems truncated rather near 256 bytes (~ > 128 UTF-16 chars) than 4096 bytes... NAME_MAX/_POSIX_NAME_MAX are 255, PATH_MAX/_POSIX_PATH_MAX are 4096. NAME_MAX defines the maximum length of a path component, PATH_MAX the maximum length of an entire path. In bytes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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