From 586cfc3c2c542a2d3d9c48b4efc3854527fbdda7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jay Satiro Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 03:23:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- docs/KNOWN_BUGS | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.47.3