return value of mkshortcut on Windows 7

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 07:45:00 GMT 2010


David Byron:
> mkshortcut is returning 8 when I expect it to return 0.

Yep, known issue.

> I'd love a hand getting mkshortcut to return 0 in this case.

Index: src/mkshortcut/mkshortcut.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/cygutils/src/mkshortcut/mkshortcut.c,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.10 mkshortcut.c
--- src/mkshortcut/mkshortcut.c 3 Dec 2009 08:19:44 -0000       1.10
+++ src/mkshortcut/mkshortcut.c 11 Mar 2010 05:43:05 -0000
@@ -612,6 +612,7 @@
             }
           persist_file->lpVtbl->Release (persist_file);
           shell_link->lpVtbl->Release (shell_link);
+          return (0);
         }
       else
         {


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