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RE: Long Pathes on Windows and SQLite

From: Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:04:59 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Schaber [mailto:m.schaber_at_codesys.com]
> Sent: vrijdag 23 augustus 2013 16:25
> To: Branko Čibej; dev_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: AW: Long Pathes on Windows and SQLite
>
> Hi, All,
>
> Von: Branko Čibej [mailto:brane_at_wandisco.com]
> > On 22.08.2013 14:26, Markus Schaber wrote:
> > > Some days ago, I stumbled across a problem, and could analyze it a little
> > > bit those days.
> > >
> > > Windows has a general limit on the path length of 260 characters on some
> > > APIs, while others allow a length of about 32k characters (with some
> > > restrictions).
> > >
> > > Most (if not all) of the SVN codebase seems to work fine with those long
> > > pathes.
> >
> > Yes, APR takes care to use the Unicode APIs and use \\?.
> >
> > > However, it seems that SQLite is not (yet) long path clean:
> >
> > Sigh...
> > [...snip...]
> >
> > > I already mentioned this problem on IRC, where Bert meant that it is an
> > > issue in SQLite itself which has its own windows abstracton layer.
> > >
> > > Now, some questions arise:
> > > 1) Is this issue worth to file a bug report in the SVN database? (Up
> > > to now, none of our customers has been bitten by that issue, but it is
> > > very likely that one will show up sooner or later...)
> >
> > IMO it's a good idea to track this, but I propose you also file the report to
> > SQLite (and put a link to that report in our report).
> > [snip]
>
> I did file http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4417.
>
> I did also contact the SQLite developers about this issue, and in
> http://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users@sqlite.org/msg78853.html,
> Richard Hipp saids:
>
> | SQLite version 3.8.0 allows for longer windows pathnames up to
> | 3*MAX_PATH bytes, which is 3x more space that was allowed before. This
> is
> | still not 32K but might be sufficient for your needs. The limit can be
> | extended at compile-time.
>
> This could help us to solve the problem.

Looking at the patch this is not going to solve your issue.
[http://www.sqlite.org/src/info/bb06e15790]

This makes it possible to use paths that need more bytes to encode a path, but it doesn't lift the MAX_PATH characters in Unicode limitation in the way APR does via absolute paths and using the \\?\ override to certain API functions.

        Bert
Received on 2013-08-23 17:06:06 CEST

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