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Re: cygwin_create_path


On Jan  3 21:22, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 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.

Yep, that's correct.


Corinna

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