[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Support long file names on Windows

[Soft Works]

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> From: ffmpegagent <ffmpegagent at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2022 11:53 AM
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Cc: softworkz <softworkz at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Support long file names on Windows
> 
> This patchset adds support for long file and directory paths on
> Windows. The
> implementation follows the same logic that .NET is using internally,
> with
> the only exception that it doesn't expand short path components in 8.3
> format. .NET does this as the same function is also used for other
> purposes,
> but in our case, that's not required. Short (8.3) paths are working as
> well
> with the extended path prefix, even when longer than 260.
> 
> Successfully tested:
> 
>  * Regular paths wth drive letter
>  * Regular UNC paths
>  * Long paths wth drive letter
>  * Long paths wth drive letter and forward slashes
>  * Long UNC paths
>  * Prefixed paths wth drive letter
>  * Prefixed UNC paths
> 
> I have kept the individual functions separate on purpose, to make it
> easy to
> compare with the .NET impl. (compilers should inlinie those anyway)

Forgot to mention that I tested this with builds from both, MSVC and 
MinGW/MSYS2 (gcc 10.3).

sw