X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_YG,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100804112630.GT8324@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <7B35B979DF6941628DE9A6D131AA3909@phoenix> <20100804112630.GT8324@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 20:40:05 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to pass parameters to a windows application From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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. =C2=A0I never expected that this wo= uld > also be necessary for the wide char case. =C2=A0Anyway, I applied a match= ing > patch. =C2=A0As 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple