Re: [jamboost] short/long pathnames on Windows

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-21 10:38:41

Vladimir Prus wrote:

> > I think there must be an existence check primitive under Windows
> > that's distinct from "get all the filenames, then check to see if you
> > find your representative there".
>
> The problem is that Jam works in the way you've described. "get all
> filenames", etc. I think that's for efficiency sake. Probably we need to
> insert both long and short names, but don't know how to get the short one.

FYI: I'm about to try using WinAPI functions for getting current dir, in hope
that full path will be returned. I'll report the results on Monday.

- Volodya