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


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 05:21:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec 11 19:27, Mikhail Usenko wrote:
>> 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?
>
>That's answered in my original mail.

Perhaps this will require reiteration and reclarification on Thursday,
feline-permitting.

YMMV!

cgf

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