Re: long path error in Finder -- known bug?
Re: long path error in Finder -- known bug?
- Subject: Re: long path error in Finder -- known bug?
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:12:44 +0100
At 8:53 PM +0100 13/3/02, Jim Schram wrote:
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At 11:39 AM -0800 2002/03/13, Olof wrote:
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>This script produces a garbage result. A known bug, perhaps?
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>The result is good up to 14 segments. At 15, when the path goes over 256
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>characters, the result becomes garbage.
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It's a long-standing limitation of the file system APIs that path names
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are limited to 255 characters (Mac OS 9 and earlier)... so it's not a bug.
I think that, as long as no coercion into string is implied, the alias
should be valid.
Emmanuel
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