From: Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 07:23:25 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: KNOWN_BUGS: long paths are not fully supported on Windows
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KNOWN_BUGS: long paths are not fully supported on Windows

Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8361
Reported-by: Gisle Vanem

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/9288
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diff --git a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
index fce0509185..9de1cacf4a 100644
--- a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
+++ b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written.
  5.10 curl hangs on SMB upload over stdin
  5.11 configure --with-gssapi with Heimdal is ignored on macOS
  5.12 flaky Windows CI builds
+ 5.13 long paths are not fully supported on Windows
 
  6. Authentication
  6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode
@@ -537,6 +538,15 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written.
 
  See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6972
 
+5.13 long paths are not fully supported on Windows
+
+ curl on Windows cannot access long paths (paths longer than 260 characters).
+ However, as a workaround, the Windows path prefix \\?\ which disables all path
+ interpretation may work to allow curl to access the path. For example:
+ \\?\c:\longpath.
+
+ See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8361
+
 6. Authentication
 
 6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode