On 08.09.2013 10:44, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Am 2013-09-07 21:46, schrieb Bart:
> On 9/7/13, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Of course! Why the hell should there be double pathdelims? And why
>> (silently) accept them as if they were one?
> There should not be, but (history: DOS and) WinApi accept them, so the
> are NOT illegal in normal filenames.
In my many decades of MS experience I never have seen double path
delimiters anywhere. How do you generate them? I would not know how to
do it. And I doubt that all WinAPI function except such (and silently
drop one delimiter in the background).
You generate them by letting the user input a path and passing it to a
function as a normal Win32 style path "X:\..." instead of a "\\?\X:..."
path. The Windows function that converts the Win32 style path to a NT
path will also reduce duplicated path delimiters. So every WinAPI
function that accepts a Win32 style path (so basically *all* WinAPI
functions) will also accept duplicate path path delimiters. Windows
Explorer does not allow them, because it uses the long path names while
on the other hand e.g. PowerShell and Cmd do indeed allow them.
Regards,
Sven
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