Re: pathmax: support for native Windows

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> You could use this syntax with win32 api. I used it for opening long
>> path and it used byapache on windows. However it will need some
>> surgery in order to be used (convert utf8 to ucs2)
>
> Yes, and this surgery would be overkill for gnulib. 99.9% of all users
> and applications never use filenames longer than 160 characters (two lines
> in a terminal window).

It will allow to use more unix name (nul will be acceptable, and name
ending with space)
at the expanse to not beeing deletable in explorer. it is a tradeoff.

Bastien

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