On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 15:05, Alf P. Steinbach < alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
On 26.10.2011 14:17, Yakov Galka wrote: [snip argumentative noise]
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:59, Alf P. Steinbach<
The *only* uses I have seen of paths longer than MAX_PATH, have been silly script-kiddies trying to create problems for people running FTP servers. And that's because the ordinary tools can't handle them, thus, difficult to remove the script-kiddie's nested folders. Conversely, as a serious software developer one should stay well away from such paths.
This offends me. I'm facing the MAX_PATH limitation at my work. If you develop nothing more than desktop apps that interact directly with the user, then please don't infer from this that others don't need it either. MAX_PATH is a problem in a large scale systems where you have enormous amounts of data.
You don't need such long paths for any size of data.
So what are the alternatives? Let's see...: 1) Hack the software to use shorter non-descriptive names. 2) Maintain a database of long paths -> short unique ids 3) Buy some commercial database system... All of these increase software complexity on the high-level, and aren't applicable if some of the software is out of my control. Furthermore, why should I do these if the native filesystem suits my needs just fine? And in the context of boost.filesystem, if I write a cross-platform app that uses long paths on linux, I expect the filesystem library to handle them on windows correctly. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 17:18, Alf P. Steinbach < alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
d:\> cscript /nologo x.js long name is 167 characters. short name is 94 characters.
Your script must be wrong, it didn't count the backslashes. It's 178 characters. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 17:30, Alf P. Steinbach < alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
E.g., "con" is a reserved device name (the console) and cannot usually be used to name a file or folder. But \\.\ or \\?\, I can't remember which, is like a "raw path". So,
It's \\?\.
Of course I shouldn't really have shown such trick here, where I have impression that perhaps script kiddies lurking, but hey, it's my birthday. :-)
Happy birthday then :). -- Yakov