Re: UNC Pathname handling

[Paul Vriens]

On 12/11/2009 02:40 PM, Alexandre Hardy wrote:
> > Now as I understand the function it can only be a maximum of 32767 when you
> > use '\?', right? If so then this allocation should only be needed in the
> > '\?' case. This however is something you have to add tests for as well. So
> > create a path>  MAX_PATH (if that's possible as I guess the path/file has to
> > exist as well) and see what is returned on Windows.
>
> Actually, I'm not certain that the maximum is not always 32767 WCHARS.
> The MSDN states that GetLongPathNameA is limited to MAX_PATH characters,
> and that you should use "\?" to increase the limit to 32767 characters.
> I'm not entirely sure what GetLongPathNameW has as a limit.

So that's why we need the tests ;)