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


On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:23:39 +0100
Corinna Vinschen <...> wrote:

> 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

Corinna, why not 1020?


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