limit of 256 characters in pathname

[tim.conway at philips.com]

I don't have time to test this, but perhaps you can bypass your problem by 
mounting the desired directory higher in the heirarchy?  I don't know if 
the underlying character counts count against the limit, but it's worth a 
try.

Tim Conway
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Ville Herva <vherva at niksula.hut.fi>
Sent by: rsync-admin at lists.samba.org
09/14/2002 12:40 PM

 
        To:     bart.coninckx at watco.be
        cc:     rsync at lists.samba.org
(bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
        Subject:        Re: limit of 256 characters in pathname
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:40:01PM +0200, you [bart.coninckx at watco.be] 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We use rsync on NT (server and client) and we get errors on filenames 
with
> a path that has in total more than 256 characters. This seems to be 
caused
> by a limit in rsync, not in NT. Is there a way to break this limit 
withuo
> having to manually shorten all this filenames?

Which rsync version for windows are you using?

If you are using the cygwin version, the 256 character limit is set by
the cygwin API. 

You are right in that NT (/w2k/xp) and NTFS allow for longer filenames, 
but
not through the normal Win32 API functions. You need to use the unicode
versions of the file access functions, prepend a '\\?\' prefix to turn of
file path parsing, and even then, individual path components cannot exceed
MAX_PAH (255).