Re: [xml] [PATCH] support long path names on WNT

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:14:48PM +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
> hi all,
>
> so we've got this patch to libxml2 2.7.6 in the LibreOffice code base,
> inherited from OOo.  it fixes a definite problem, which is that Windows
> has a rather low maximum path length restriction, and there is a special
> trick on NT whereby path names can be prefixed with "\\?\", in which
> case the maximum length is 32k, which ought to be sufficient even for
> bloated office suites :)
>
> i'll attach the patch to the xmlCanonicPath function.  note that i
> didn't write this and am by no means an expert on either Microsoftean
> platforms or libxml so maybe it's not the best way to do it.  well, the
> strlen call in there looks superfluous to me.

  Yeah, I finally applied this. Those paths can't be converted to
URIs anyway so even if it's weird let's keep it. i cleaned up the code
and pushed this,

  thanks !

Daniel

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