RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

["Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)" <gsw at agere dot com>]

> Of course we would be glad to have more people working on
> the DLL (and sign the copyright assignment, sigh),

Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to
be much easier to release something into the public domain
(at least at my company), thus my approach. I had actually
made some progress with the assignment, but it went back to
ground zero when my old group was disbanded.

> but what you wrote sounds somewhat like a special solution
> which requires lots of new "if (is_ntfs)" tests, roughly.

Sort of, although I approached it as a set of services that
could replace Windows file operations with extended versions
that could be selected dynamically. I had come up with the
following list of functions to replace (which perhaps might
be of some use to you):

CopyFile
CopyFileEx
CreateDirectory
CreateDirectoryEx
CreateFile
DeleteFile
FindFirstChangeNotification
FindFirstFile
FindFirstFileEx
GetBinaryType
GetFileAttributes
GetFileAttributesEx
GetFullPathName
GetLongPathName
GetShortPathName
MoveFile
MoveFileEx
MoveFileWithProgress
RemoveDirectory
ReplaceFile
SearchPath
SetCurrentDirectory
SetFileAttributes
SetFileSecurity

gsw


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