-LONGDIR=${FROM}/This-is-a-directory-with-a-stupidly-long-name-created-in-an-attempt-to-provoke-an-error-found-in-2.0.11-that-should-hopefully-never-appear-again-if-this-test-does-its-job/This-is-a-directory-with-a-stupidly-long-name-created-in-an-attempt-to-provoke-an-error-found-in-2.0.11-that-should-hopefully-never-appear-again-if-this-test-does-its-job/This-is-a-directory-with-a-stupidly-long-name-created-in-an-attempt-to-provoke-an-error-found-in-2.0.11-that-should-hopefully-never-appear-again-if-this-test-does-its-job
+longname=This-is-a-directory-with-a-stupidly-long-name-created-in-an-attempt-to-provoke-an-error-found-in-2.0.11-that-should-hopefully-never-appear-again-if-this-test-does-its-job
+longdir="$fromdir/$longname/$longname/$longname"
+
+makepath "$longdir" || test_skipped "unable to create long directory"
+touch "$longdir/1" || test_skipped "unable to create files in long directory"
+date > "$longdir/1"
+if [ -r /etc ]; then
+ ls -la /etc >"$longdir/2"
+else
+ ls -la / >"$longdir/2"
+fi
+checkit "$RSYNC --delete -avH '$fromdir/' '$todir'" "$fromdir/" "$todir"