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Re: How to pass parameters to a windows application


On Aug  4 20:40, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 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?

Right, but it doesn't hurt either.


Corinna

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