What's the big deal? 
$ uname -s
Linux
$ perl -we "system 'A'x256"
Can't exec "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
+AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
+AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
+AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA": File n
+ame too long at -e line 1.
$

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It's not a Perl bug, and it's not a Windows specific issue either. There are limits on the length of path names, and path name components, both on Windows and Unices. Sure, the messages might differ, but so what?

Abigail

In reply to Re: ActivateState crasher by Abigail-II
in thread ActivePerl crasher by zude

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