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Re: How to pass parameters to a windows application
On 4 August 2010 12:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> It's a shame that not even the official Win32 APIs are always clean
> in terms of the long path name definition.
Yep, and MSDN doesn't even seem to mention it.
>> Therefore I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be better to address this
>> once and for all in cygwin_conv_path itself by doing what cygpath
>> does: assuming the resulting path fits into MAX_PATH, drop "\\?\" from
>> all long paths and turn "UNC\" into "\\".
>
> This is already implemented in cygwin_conv_path for some time, but
> only for the CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_A case. ÂI never expected that this would
> also be necessary for the wide char case. ÂAnyway, I applied a matching
> patch. ÂAs long as the resulting wide char path is not longer than
> MAX_PATH, it will be stripped of the long path prefix.
Great. Seems to be working fine for me.
This allows dropping the equivalent hack from cygpath, doesn't it?
Andy
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