I have looked through the archives for this error and found some instance of it but no solutions. I have an idea for a workaround but I would like to get some clarification. 1) Unix has as a limit 256 for the length of a file name. Does this limit also apply to a fully qualified path? 2) The path we are sending over is 261 in length, I assumed that since none of the dir names or file names were over 256 we would be okay We are using CwRsync on the client side and rsync on linux. My workaround is to locate which files would cause a problem and them specify the associated base path to a deeper level in order to alleviate the size problems. This is not an optimal solution but a temporary one. thanks Doug -- What profits a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his soul? -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 03:29:51PM -0500, Doug Lochart wrote:> 1) Unix has as a limit 256 for the length of a file name. Does this > limit also apply to a fully qualified path?It's MS Window that has the extremely short filename limit, and thus the cygwin environment that cannot handle a long combination of path and filename. Perhaps a future version of rsync will try to use chdir more as it traverses a hierarchy of files, but for now, the only solution is the one you've already devised. ..wayne..