Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:04:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Watts, Simon (UK)" cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: cygpath -s behaviour In-Reply-To: <4F055774D458D51195BC000347246B39E80397@xcguk001.inri.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Watts, Simon (UK) wrote: > > DWORD len = GetShortPathName (filename, buf, MAX_PATH); > > if (len == 0 && GetLastError () == ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER) > > { > > fprintf (stderr, "%s: cannot create short name of %s\n", prog_name, > > filename); > > exit (2); > > } > > The above code snippet is as in the src.tar.bz2 archive for the > version of cygwin which I have. > > V strange, this should work... > > Check that GetShortPathName _is_ returning 0 on fail? Try > the test 'len <= 0' instead? http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/base/getshortpathname.asp Oh, and while I still have a chance, I'd like to point out that I'm not a cygwin developer or maintainer, just someone who looked at the code... :-D Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/