20 Jul
2005
20 Jul
'05
9:14 a.m.
Jan Hermelink wrote:
- fstream.hpp: Implementation of function narrow_path(const std::wstring & file_ph, ...) This function doesn't work at all on my system, it returns always the empty string. Why is this 8.3 conversion needed, can this work on NTFS reliable?
No. 8.3 aliases are optional on NTFS and turning them off improves the performance of the file system, sometimes significantly. The narrow path should probably be obtained via WideCharToMultiByte with CP_ACP or CP_OEMCP, depending on whether AreFileApisANSI returns true, but there's no guarantee that it will be useful for opening the file.