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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:00:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygpath hangings
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Chris,

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, chris wrote:

> If I comment out the call to SHGetPathFromIDList in this program, the
> program returns, else it hangs.
>
Confirmed.

> Also, This program seems to be both valid c++ and c code. If it is
> compiled in gcc, all is fine. In g++, it hangs.
>
Really?  I see the hang regardless.

> -- Code begins --
>
> #include <shlobj.h>
>
> void fee (void) {
>   char *buf;
>
I changed this to char buf[255] just to be safer.

>   LPITEMIDLIST id;
>   SHGetPathFromIDList (id, buf);
> }
>
> int main (int argc, char **argv)
> {
>     return 0;
> }
>

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FlightSafety International
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