RE: Problem with Big File Name

FYI, I just went to a Win2k box and successfully did:

_wfopen(L"\\\\?\\c:\\foo.txt", L"wb")

I also the same thing with lots of subdirs so that the full pathname is
longer than MAX_PATH chars.

Ie, it doesn't appear to matter which particular API (CreateFile/fopen)
you use; you just need:

1. To be using an NT-kernel-based Windows; and
2. To supply the magical '\\?\' prefix; and
3. To be calling the wide (Unicode) version of the API.

The Microsoft Visual C++ help files say this doesn't work on the Windowses
based on the 9x kernel; maybe that's why APR doesn't use it?

The help file also says that each seperate 'component' in the path (eg
subdir name) still needs to be shorter than MAX_PATH even with this
workaround.

HTH,

--matt

Matthew Sanderson
Senior Programmer (UNIX)
TCG Information Systems Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia
matthew@formtrap.com
http://www.formtrap.com/
+61 (02) 8303 2407

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Received on Thu Aug 4 07:37:39 2005