Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment:
With just PATHCCH_ALLOW_LONG_PATHS, PathCchCombineEx() returns a long path as a normal path (i.e. not a \\?\ extended path) if long-path support is enabled for the current process. Otherwise, if long-path support isn't enabled or available, as is always the case in Windows 8.1, then PATHCCH_ALLOW_LONG_PATHS makes PathCchCombineEx() return a long path as an extended path. In most cases, extended paths work fine. A common exception is that extended paths aren't supported for the working directory. In Windows 10+, PATHCCH_FORCE_ENABLE_LONG_NAME_PROCESS forces PathCchCombineEx() to always return a long path as a normal path, even if long-path support is disabled for the current process. For most cases, this option pretty much guarantees that long paths will cause immediate failures if long-path support is disabled for the current process. In some cases one might want an immediate failure, instead of messing around with extended paths that might fail in some obscure, buggy way. Also, for pure path manipulation one may not care whether the current process can access the path without the \\?\ prefix. ---------- nosy: +eryksun _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46217> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
