Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/03/05:38:45
Quoting Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>:
> Uhm... it should have nothing to do with NTFS vs. other FS. The shortcut
> symlinks are used on all FS.
That's what I thought to begin with, but cygwin cunningly uses Extended Attributes where available, bypassing the check_shortcut and the whole COM world altogether on NTFS.
> The question is if we can drop CoUninitialize() completely. If the call
> to CoUninitialize() is dropped, it should not matter to call CoInitialize()
> multiple times since it should only return a "The COM library is already
> initialized on this thread" return code. That shouldn't take that much
> time. The slowness results from the need to load DLLs and such stuff.
To quote from the MSDN:
"To close the COM library gracefully, each successful call to CoInitialize or CoInitializeEx, including those that return S_FALSE, must be balanced by a corresponding call to CoUninitialize"
Another relevant quote:
"Because there is no way to control the order in which in-process servers are loaded or unloaded, it is not safe to call CoInitialize, CoInitializeEx, or CoUninitialize from the DllMain function"
To accomodate cygwin-based COM users, one should probably swallow the MSDN prescription and find a better place to call CoInit/CoUninit.
On the other hand, if the shortcut file format is known(?), one could maybe bypass the COM/ IShellXXXX interfaces completely and read the link directly from the file.
Dan
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