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Re: Using du.exe to calculate disk usage on a Microsoft cluster server


On 7/7/06, Linda Walsh wrote:

       It is quite trivial.  He's prepending either "S:/" or
"/cygdrive/s" to an existing pathname.  The existing pathname can be at the
limit (~256 bytes).  Adding either prefix, above, the pathlen becomes 259

...which is why MAX_PATH on windows is 260, to allow for these extra 3 chars...


       Another easy way: cd to directory "/averylongdirnamethathas200chars"
you can create a file in that directory of "maxchars",

No, you can't. At least, you shouldn't be able to. The attempt to create this file is supposed to fail because the limit is for the path length as a whole.

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