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| <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>cygwin_conv_path</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot"><link rel="home" href="cygwin-api.html" title="Cygwin API Reference"><link rel="up" href="cygwin-functions.html#func-cygwin-path" title="Path conversion functions"><link rel="prev" href="cygwin-functions.html" title="Chapter 2. Cygwin Functions"><link rel="next" href="func-cygwin-conv-path-list.html" title="cygwin_conv_path_list"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cygwin_conv_path</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cygwin-functions.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Path conversion functions</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="func-cygwin-conv-path-list.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="func-cygwin-conv-path"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>cygwin_conv_path</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><pre class="funcsynopsisinfo"> | |
| #include <sys/cygwin.h> | |
| </pre><p><code class="funcdef">ssize_t | |
| <b class="fsfunc">cygwin_conv_path</b>(</code>cygwin_conv_path_t <var class="pdparam">what</var>, const void * <var class="pdparam">from</var>, void * <var class="pdparam">to</var>, size_t <var class="pdparam">size</var><code>)</code>;</p></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="func-cygwin-conv-path-desc"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>Use this function to convert POSIX paths in | |
| <em class="parameter"><code>from</code></em> to Win32 paths in <em class="parameter"><code>to</code></em> | |
| or, vice versa, Win32 paths in <em class="parameter"><code>from</code></em> to POSIX paths | |
| in <em class="parameter"><code>to</code></em>. <em class="parameter"><code>what</code></em> | |
| defines the direction of this conversion and can be any of the below | |
| values.</p><pre class="programlisting"> | |
| CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_A /* from is char *posix, to is char *win32 */ | |
| CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W, /* from is char *posix, to is wchar_t *win32 */ | |
| CCP_WIN_A_TO_POSIX, /* from is char *win32, to is char *posix */ | |
| CCP_WIN_W_TO_POSIX, /* from is wchar_t *win32, to is char *posix */ | |
| </pre><p>You can additionally or the following values to | |
| <em class="parameter"><code>what</code></em>, to define whether you want the resulting | |
| path in <em class="parameter"><code>to</code></em> to be absolute or if you want to keep | |
| relative paths in relative notation. Creating absolute paths is the | |
| default.</p><pre class="programlisting"> | |
| CCP_ABSOLUTE = 0, /* Request absolute path (default). */ | |
| CCP_RELATIVE = 0x100 /* Request to keep path relative. */ | |
| CCP_PROC_CYGDRIVE = 0x200 /* Request to return /proc/cygdrive path | |
| (only with CCP_*_TO_POSIX). */ | |
| </pre><p><em class="parameter"><code>size</code></em> is the size of the buffer pointed to | |
| by <em class="parameter"><code>to</code></em> in bytes. If <em class="parameter"><code>size</code></em> | |
| is 0, <code class="function">cygwin_conv_path</code> just returns the required | |
| buffer size in bytes. Otherwise, it returns 0 on success, or -1 on | |
| error and errno is set to one of the below values.</p><pre class="programlisting"> | |
| EINVAL what has an invalid value or from is NULL. | |
| EFAULT from or to point into nirvana. | |
| ENAMETOOLONG the resulting path is longer than 32K, or, in case | |
| of what == CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_A, longer than MAX_PATH. | |
| ENOSPC size is less than required for the conversion. | |
| </pre></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="func-cygwin-conv-path-example"></a><h2>Example</h2><div class="example"><a name="func-cygwin-conv-path-example-example"></a><p class="title"><b>Example 2.1. Example use of cygwin_conv_path</b></p><div class="example-contents"><pre class="programlisting"> | |
| #include <sys/cygwin.h> | |
| /* Conversion from incoming Win32 path given as wchar_t *win32 to POSIX path. | |
| If incoming path is a relative path, stick to it. First ask how big | |
| the output buffer has to be and allocate space dynamically. */ | |
| ssize_t size; | |
| char *posix; | |
| size = cygwin_conv_path (CCP_WIN_W_TO_POSIX | CCP_RELATIVE, win32, NULL, 0); | |
| if (size < 0) | |
| perror ("cygwin_conv_path"); | |
| else | |
| { | |
| posix = (char *) malloc (size); | |
| if (cygwin_conv_path (CCP_WIN_W_TO_POSIX | CCP_RELATIVE, win32, | |
| posix, size)) | |
| perror ("cygwin_conv_path"); | |
| } | |
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