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Re: cygwin_create_path


2010/1/3 Andy Koppe:
> I'm having a spot of trouble changing mkshortcut to use the
> wchar_t-enabled cygwin_create_path instead of the deprecated
> cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path & co. When converting to a Windows path
> using CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W, the result is a path starting with "\\?\",
> e.g. "\\?\C:\cygwin\bash.exe".
>
> Yet unfortunately the IShellLink::SetPath method does not appear to
> accept such paths, instead returning failure and leaving the link
> target unset. Therefore, is there a simple way to get from the full
> path to a "normal" path such as "C:\cygwin\bash.exe"? Simply dropping
> the "\\?\" wouldn't work for network paths. I haven't managed to find
> a solution on MSDN.

Handling this as follows now:
- If the path starts with "\\?\UNC\", replace that with "\\" (for
network paths).
- Otherwise, if the path starts with "\\?\", just remove that.

Andy


>
> Andy
>

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