Re: How to deal with long pathnames in Cocoa ?
Re: How to deal with long pathnames in Cocoa ?
- Subject: Re: How to deal with long pathnames in Cocoa ?
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:01:31 -0800
On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 06:57 AM, Ondra Cada wrote:
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Stephane,
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>>>>>> Stephane Sudre (SS) wrote at Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:26:42 +0100:
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SS> Apparent conclusion: The NSFileManager API is not long
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pathname savvy.
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There is absolutely no problem with the API! It can cope with a
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million-character-filenames just as easily as with one-char-ones.
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There seems though to be a problem in the _implementation_ (which,
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incidentally, seems to go *WAY* back: I've just tried that in
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my NeXTStep
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3.3, and succeeded to kill Edit the very same way -- by trying
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to save a file
Isn't MAXPATHLEN 512 characters in most of the utilities in /bin
and /usr/bin?
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