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Confusing word choice about extended maximum path length
Describe the bug
The maximum path of 32,767 characters is approximate, because the "\\?\" prefix may be expanded to a longer string by the system at run time, and this expansion applies to the total length.
It seems that here is stated that..
The "\\?\" prefix may be expanded to a longer string by the system at run time and the expanded string must be within the maximum path length (i.e. thus less then 32,767 characters may be usable)
Though "The maximum path of 32,767 characters is approximate" seems to be incorrect if 32,767 characters is a hard limit which it seems to be.
Above is from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=cmd
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@wallby What's the article you were looking at?
@gewarren Added link now, seems perhaps I forgot to include it.
@GrantMeStrength FYI.