Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Cross Platform Path issues

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:59:45AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 07:48, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:28:11AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > > >  My thought is that instead of trying to go about effecting changes 
> > > > in two very large pieces of software(Windows,Cygwin) (one which we have 
> > > > much more influence over than the other (i.i.e.. we have 000000 control 
> > > > over Microsoft, and (0 > control < 1) over cygwin) we can try to get 
> > > > arch 
> > > > to work on both systems.
> > > 
> > > Sure, and reducing the length of path needed will do that. Attempting to
> > > thunk around by path tricks won't.
> > 
> > Actually it demonstrably will, since that's exactly how vfat works.
> 
> VFAT stores the relative component at each step in the path. OS calls
> store (at worst) the full device path.

Think it through: the same approach used by VFAT could be used to
compress paths - have an external database of paths, put something
fake in the OS path for compatibility (which references the database
somehow), and map back and forth in the filesystem layer.

It's not a good alternative to utilising the native long path
handling, but it would *work*.

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