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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 <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: "Watts, Simon (UK)" <swatts AT northgrum-it DOT eu DOT com>
cc: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cygpath -s behaviour
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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
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