Subject: Re: [boost] Windows Develop Tests Failing
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-19 11:22:54
AMDG
On 03/19/2015 08:27 AM, Raffi Enficiaud wrote:
>
> fopen can also work with UNC path, which does not have the MAX_PATH=255
> limitation:
> - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yeby3zcb.aspx
> -
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
>
> A possible workaround would be to prefix the path name with "\\?\" then.
>
It's a bit more complicated then that, since
\\?\ requires an absolute path. Also, I
thought that you need to use wchar_t as well.
> If there is an intermediate cmd.exe, I suspect passing filename with the
> previous prefix works as well.
>
> How to debug at which point things start failing?
>
This particular failure happens towards the end
of function.c. You can find it by searching for fopen.
In Christ,
Steven Watanabe