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From: "Watts, Simon (UK)" <swatts AT northgrum-it DOT eu DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cygpath -s behaviour
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:28:21 +0100 
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>   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?


SAW.

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