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<p><b>@kugel-</b> commented on this pull request.</p>

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<p>In <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/3024#discussion_r758984962">src/utils.c</a>:</p>
<pre style='color:#555'>> @@ -2414,6 +2419,48 @@ void utils_start_new_geany_instance(const gchar *doc_path)
 }
 
 
+
+static int get_path_max(const char *path)
+{
+#ifdef PATH_MAX
+       return PATH_MAX;
+#else
+       int path_max = pathconf(path, _PC_PATH_MAX);
+       if (path_max <= 0)
+               path_max = 4096;
+       return path_max;
+#endif
</pre>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Adding the prefix seems like the easiest way to use longer paths on Windows, but changing Windows behavior would be difficult for me to test.</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">That is probably best left to the future guy that requires longer paths on Windows. Devs tend to checkout code directly to C:\src or similar (possibly <em>because</em> of the limitations?) so nobody came up with that requirement so far, to my knowledge.</p>

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