How to scan a file with a long path (more than 256 characters)

[Peter Liu]

I write a program in c#. This program run in my computer (window 7 os) scans the file in the file server(linux os). When the path of file very long, >256 charaters. The program stop run and throw a longpathexcepti on.

How can I solve this problem?

Thank you every one!

 
private static void scanFile(string directory)
        {
            List<FileInfo> fileList = new List<FileInfo>();

            System.IO.DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(directory);

            FileInfo[] files = di.GetFiles("*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
            DirectoryInfo[] directories = di.GetDirectories("*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);


            foreach (FileInfo file in files)
            {
                fileList.Add(file);
                logger.Info("Got file: " + file);
            }

            inputData(fileList);

            foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in directories)
            {
                scanFile(dir.FullName);
            }

            return;
        }//end scanFile method.