On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Shankar Unni wrote: > BB wrote: > > > Shouldn't GetShortPathName() == 0 always cause the get_short_name() > > function to fail? > > I would sincerely hope not. I see no reason why cygpath conversion has > to be tied to the existence of files. We often need to use cygpath to > convert between formats for files which we are about to create. > > e.g. > > notepad `cygpath -d "/cygdrive/c/some nonexistent file.txt"` > > will make notepad create that file for me.
Also note that on some filesystems there *is* no short name (and we may not get ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER for filenames <67 bytes in length). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/