Re: File-Paths exceeding MAX_PATH on Windows
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:40:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: File-Paths exceeding MAX_PATH on Windows | ||
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On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Nicolai Scheer <nicolai.scheer@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree, but what about pandora and the other file functions like unlink()
> etc.? :)
> They currently do not prevent such long and prefixed paths...
A bug then, should be fixed. Yes, you don't want to hear that but... :-)
> And to my mind it is ok to let the user open the box (a little?) when he is
> doing so on purpose.
>
> Unfortunately mouting directories is too unflexible for our use case...
How so? can be easily automated for shared hosts and the likes.
> Furthermore we only need to read files, and that's the only function
> currently not allowing the prefix workaround :(
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Pierre
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