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On Wednesday, Apr 30, 2003, at 16:51 Europe/Amsterdam, Robert Spier wrote: >> However, i can't help but think how nice it would be to actually have >> a >> way to shorten paths appropriately enough for the creation to still >> succeed. > > I'm not sure this is a *perl* problem. it's a problem for users of perl.. the fact the OS is to blame hasn't stopped us before from doing something reasonable. > I also think this should fail. If you can't access it with Long > names, you shouldn't hack around it. fair enough, i've been thinking about a possible 'good way' to do it anyway, but couldn't come up with something satisfactory. ie, it would fix things in one case, but would break in others. >> +If C<mkpath> gives you the warning: B<No such file or directory>, >> this >> +may mean that you've exceeded your filesystem's maximum path length. >> +For example, on FAT filesystems (Win32), this is known to be 260 >> +characters. > Maybe: > > On Windows, if C<mkpath> gives you the warning: B<No such file or > directory>, this may mean that you've exceeded your filesystem's > directory>maximum path length. that's fine with me, just /some/ mention of it in the docs seem apropriate maybe casey feels strongly about certain wording? :) -- Jos Boumans "You know the world is going crazy, when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, Switzerland wins the US Open sailing cup, Belfast is considered the safest city for a Bush/Blair top, France is accusing the US of arrogance and germany doesn't want to go to war." CPANPLUS http://cpanplus.sf.netThread Previous | Thread Next