2010/1/3 Andy Koppe: > I'm having a spot of trouble changing mkshortcut to use the > wchar_t-enabled cygwin_create_path instead of the deprecated > cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path & co. When converting to a Windows path > using CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W, the result is a path starting with "\\?\", > e.g. "\\?\C:\cygwin\bash.exe". > > Yet unfortunately the IShellLink::SetPath method does not appear to > accept such paths, instead returning failure and leaving the link > target unset. Therefore, is there a simple way to get from the full > path to a "normal" path such as "C:\cygwin\bash.exe"? Simply dropping > the "\\?\" wouldn't work for network paths. I haven't managed to find > a solution on MSDN.
Handling this as follows now: - If the path starts with "\\?\UNC\", replace that with "\\" (for network paths). - Otherwise, if the path starts with "\\?\", just remove that. Andy > > 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
