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RE: cygpath -s behaviour
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "Watts, Simon (UK)" <swatts at northgrum-it dot eu dot com>
- Cc: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:04:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: cygpath -s behaviour
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Watts, Simon (UK) wrote:
> > DWORD len = GetShortPathName (filename, buf, MAX_PATH);
> > if (len == 0 && GetLastError () == ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER)
> > {
> > fprintf (stderr, "%s: cannot create short name of %s\n", prog_name,
> > filename);
> > exit (2);
> > }
>
> The above code snippet is as in the src.tar.bz2 archive for the
> version of cygwin which I have.
>
> V strange, this should work...
>
> Check that GetShortPathName _is_ returning 0 on fail? Try
> the test 'len <= 0' instead?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/base/getshortpathname.asp
Oh, and while I still have a chance, I'd like to point out that I'm not a
cygwin developer or maintainer, just someone who looked at the code... :-D
Igor
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