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Summary

This PR fixes the ENAMETOOLONG crash reported in #24898.

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The issue occurs when a long prompt (like logs or code) is passed to the CLI. The path.normalize function in resolvePath.ts tries to process it as a file path, hitting OS limits.

I've added a check to skip normalization if the string length exceeds 1024 characters.

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Fixes #24898
Fixes#25266

Add check for path length to avoid OS errors
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This pull request resolves a critical ENAMETOOLONG crash within the CLI by introducing a safeguard against attempting to normalize excessively long input strings as file paths. The change ensures that the application avoids hitting operating system path length limitations when handling large inputs like logs or code, thereby improving stability and robustness.

Highlights

  • Crash Fix: Addressed the ENAMETOOLONG crash that occurred when the CLI processed very long strings as file paths, by preventing path.normalize from being called on them.
  • Path Normalization Logic: Implemented a check in resolvePath.ts to bypass path normalization for any string exceeding 1024 characters, assuming such long strings are prompts rather than actual file paths.
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This pull request introduces a length check in packages/cli/src/utils/resolvePath.ts. Paths exceeding 1024 characters are now returned without normalization to avoid OS-level path length errors, under the assumption that such long strings represent prompts rather than actual file paths. I have no feedback to provide.

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@gemini-cli gemini-cli Bot added priority/p3 Backlog - a good idea but not currently a priority. area/core Issues related to User Interface, OS Support, Core Functionality help wanted We will accept PRs from all issues marked as "help wanted". Thanks for your support! labels Apr 10, 2026
Handle path normalization errors and fallback for long paths.
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@scidomino "I've updated the logic to replace the hardcoded limit with a try-catch block and specifically handle ENAMETOOLONG as suggested. Please take another look!"

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@scidomino Hi! The CI/E2E workflows are currently awaiting approval. Could a maintainer please approve them so the checks can run? Thank you!

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@scidomino Can you assign this to @renuka16032007?

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@scidomino Hi! The CI/E2E workflows are currently awaiting approval. Could a maintainer please approve them so the checks can run? Thank you!

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scidomino enabled auto-merge April 12, 2026 19:46
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we don't allow any in our code. Please make sure npm run preflight.

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@scidomino Hi! I've updated the code to remove 'any' and consolidated the fixes. Could you please approve the workflow to run the checks? Thank you!

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@scidomino Hi! I've updated the code to remove 'any' and consolidated the fixes. Could you please approve the workflow to run the checks? Thank you!

I still see the "any" in the code which is unsurprising since the timeline shows that you have not modified the code since I left my comment. I assume you forgot to push your changes. please do.

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Hi @scidomino,
Sorry for the inconvenience. I have now updated the code and replaced any with unknown in the catch block as suggested. Please let me know if any further changes are needed. Could you please approve the workflow to run the checks?
Thank you!

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@renuka16032007 no you didn't. If you had there would be an entry shown in the timeline like this:
Screenshot 2026-04-15 at 10 11 10 AM

But as you can see there is no such entry between my request and your response.

Screenshot 2026-04-15 at 10 11 36 AM

I will modify this PR and merge it myself.

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After investigating, I realize that path.normalize in Node.js is a pure string manipulation function and cannot throw ENAMETOOLONG. Therefore. This is dead code.

@scidomino scidomino closed this Apr 15, 2026
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"Hi @scidomino, thank you for the feedback and for taking the time to review my work. I was away due to my academic exams and couldn't follow the updates closely earlier. I understand your decision to close the PR. I'm looking forward to contributing to other issues and improving the project further. Thanks again!"

CadanHu added a commit to CadanHu/gemini-cli that referenced this pull request May 9, 2026
When a long string (e.g., a pasted multi-line stack trace) is interpreted
as an @path command, it is forwarded to robustRealpath. The underlying
fs.realpathSync / fs.lstatSync calls then throw ENAMETOOLONG (the input
exceeds the system's PATH_MAX), which was unhandled and surfaced as an
unhandled rejection that crashed the CLI.

Treat ENAMETOOLONG the same as ENOENT/EISDIR so the value is gracefully
treated as "not a real path" instead of a fatal error. PR google-gemini#25009 added
a length guard at the CLI layer, but the @-command processor bypasses
that guard, so the safeguard is needed at the core layer as well.

Fixes google-gemini#26368
@sripasg sripasg added the size/s A small PR label Jun 2, 2026
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