[Mono-list] PathTooLongException workaround for mono?

[David S]

Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall.rename, AWSOME! Thanks a bunch :)

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Robert Jordan <robertj at gmx.net> wrote:

> On 15.06.2010 20:23, David S wrote:
> > Thats cool and everything, but I want to be able to go past the C# limit
> on
> > path size. So while that was informative, it doesn't really answer my
>
> The limit is imposed by Mono's io-layer and it's not configurable.
> If you need more than 260 chars that you could use Mono.Posix.
>
> > question. On Windows apparently you can call an API function and use
> "\\?\"
> > as a prefix and have a path length of 32,767 or even have it unbounded in
> > some cases.
>
> You cannot use these escaped paths with MS.NET or Mono.
>
> Robert
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Christopher David Howie
> > <me at chrishowie.com>wrote:
> >
> >> On 06/15/2010 04:12 AM, David S wrote:
> >>> While I personally have not hit the max character boundry, my
> >>> application should probably know how to avoid that considering its
> >>> nothing but IO operations. The only information I have found was a msdn
> >>> page about Windows API calls I could use on
> >>> windows
> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx#maxpath.
> >>> So, im guessing I have to find some Linux and Mac API calls and just
> >>> deal with the different OSes?
> >>
> >> Yeah.  Btw, Google rocks for that:
> >> <
> >>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/833291/is-there-an-equivalent-to-winapis-max-path-under-linux-unix
> >>> .
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